ABOUT THE ARTIST

Boston native Kelly Broderick is an abstract artist and designer. She currently lives in coastal Massachusetts with her husband and two children. She holds a BFA in design from Syracuse University.
Kelly is passionate about color— it’s been a lifetime love affair.
As a teen and young adult Kelly studied at both MASSART and Boston’s Museum School. Painting and studying art in the city was a way for her to escape a difficult childhood and process coming into her own. She stepped away from painting for nearly two decades while her design career took priority. Kelly worked as a footwear designer for several global athletic and fashion brands.
Beginning in 2017, Kelly faced hardship while caring for both her young children and dying parents. Her perspective as an artist came into focus through these challenging few years. Kelly once again sought refuge and self-expression in painting. In early 2020 Kelly took her first Intuitive Abstract workshop with Kelley MacDonald through the North River Arts Society, and she was immediately hooked. Since that day abstract painting has been the primary focus of her work.

Abstract Art has always taken my breath away.

I paint abstract and intuitively, using acrylic paint and a variety of mark making tools, driven by color, marking a moment in time. It’s the happy accidents that thrill me. The unplanned and unexpected beauty of painting in the present-- in the flow.

Trusting myself and the decades of art and design that I have labored over, finally at mid-life, allowing myself to take the world in and letting my paintings emerge. Without planning, without control-- with playfulness, joy and uncertainty.

This work both calms and excites me.

It is meditative and unexpected.

It helps me make sense of this world.