Standing Nude (2012) Painting by Terence Kelly

Terence Kelly was born in Manchester, England, in 1948. In the 70s and 80s, he attended adult art classes at Manchester University Campus under the tuition of the painter William Ralph Turner (1920-2013), whose work is now selling for five-figure sums and life class under the tuition of the sculptor Francoise Lewis where he became interested in the female form as a subject. He has appeared on Salford University’s (now defunct) Channel MTV and has had work in exhibitions in the UK and America. His work is in private collections all over the world.


Art has been a lifelong passion. I learned by studying anatomy and copying old masters from the Renaissance to the Modern Art movements of today and I am still learning from the past and contemporary artists I admire. Having reached a level in my career where I can express myself well in paint I feel and see in my figurative to abstract palette knife paintings of the female form a new way of looking at the subject that is both contemporary and aesthetic. I also paint landscapes and seascapes and find the moors above Greater Manchester inspirational because of the stark beauty of the Pennines which I never tire of trying to capture in paint. These impressions, figurative and abstract, I never want to be without and hope to share with anyone who appreciates art.

• Nationality: UNITED KINGDOM
• Date of birth : 1948
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary British Artists