When Martta Kelly started photography in 2003, she mainly stuck to pictures of her cats or her garden- but that all changed when she discovered the site Pixels At An Exhibition. Looking further, she was pleased to discover that all the photography was done with none other than an iPhone. Spurred by this new artistic venture, Martta began to find her own style.
Martta’s art features nature, abandoned buildings, and wildlife, and all of her photos have a dreamlike quality to them. She has a way of making photography disguise itself as other mediums: a picture of her beloved cat looks like a charcoal drawing, another photo of a group of flowers looks like an intricate oil painting. This is shown best in her featured piece on the now-defunct Pixel: a tribute to a friend who had passed, entitled “In Memory Of Muriel”. It is done in the style of a watercolor, as that was Muriel’s medium of choice for her artwork.
Martta's style is very vivid, with an almost mesmerizing quality. Moving forward, she wants to try and capture street photography, and to add in more portrait shots of people. This is most evident in her portrait Cherry Blossom Princess, for which Martta won the Essex County Senior Citizens Juried Art Show for this year.
For those looking to get started on photography, Martta says that the most important thing to do is to practice. “You can learn a lot just by … looking at other people's work and trying to figure out how they do that. Not copying the work, just to see their methods and how they got to that point. It's like [anything else]. Do you wanna be in music? Play music. Do you wanna be a better runner? Run. Really, the more you do, the better you get."
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She has a way of making photography disguise itself as other mediums.