Kelly Foxton
Kelly Foxton was raised in a small town north east of Toronto, Ontario. Surrounded by farms and forests it was there that Kelly first felt a deep connection to and respect for the natural world and its many wonders. She began drawing and painting in early childhood and developed a keen eye for colour and detail as depicted in her work.
After completing high school in Pickering, Ontario Kelly moved to Montreal, Quebec to attend the International Academy of Merchandising and Design. She completed the program at the Academy’s Toronto campus and in 1991 received an Interior Design diploma.
After graduation Kelly spent two years in Lake Louise, Alberta working at a clothing store, painting and selling miniature watercolours, and exploring the wild and beautiful mountainscapes of the surrounding areas.
In 1993, Kelly left Lake Louise to live among the Interior Salish people of Douglas Lake, B.C. She then returned to Alberta to live and work on a cattle ranch in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Claresholm, Alberta. In the autumn of 1995 Kelly’s first son Laine was born. That year Kelly published her first set of limited edition prints reproduced from three of her original pieces. She continued with her creative pursuits doing portraits, painting murals and landscapes, and teaching watercolour classes.
Kelly returned to Ontario in 1999. That year she had her second son Teague and completed an original art series for Environment Canada. In the summer of 2000 she started selling her own art as well as the work of various aboriginal artists at Native North American Pow Wows.
Kelly currently resides in Madoc, Ontario with her two small boys. She owns and operates The White Pine Gallery and helps promote the arts as President of the Madoc and Area Artisans Guild. Kelly continues to create art as a tribute to the beauty and wisdom found in the natural world, our Mother Earth and the many faces of her children. |
“Lost Habitat” Original in coloured ink (Giclee prints available)
This piece is part of a series that Environment Canada commissioned in 1999. The series was meant to depict weathers effect on humans, animals and the environment. However, with this painting I wanted to leave the viewer wondering if perhaps careless human hands played a role in the destruction of this majestic creature’s habitat.
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