nickkelly
artist/writer
About Me
Painting and writing have always been at the centre of my life. Having worked in broadcasting for more than forty years I am now a full-time artist and writer.
The House of Fortune
I lived and worked in Qatar for twenty three years. My historical novel follows a fictional Qatari family as they face hardships of pearl-diving in the 1920s through colonial times, the discovery of oil and independence in the 1970s. I have almost finished the sequel - Single Man, Dancing Alone - which continues the story until the present day.
Open Spaces, Secret Places
A collection of works painted in the last five years as part of an exhibition with Liz Shedden at The Horsebridge, Whitstable on 21st July 2021 for two weeks
https://thehorsebridge.org.uk/whats_on/galleries/open-spaces-secret-places
Kitesurfers, Whitstable
75 x 45cm
£475
SOLD
Empty House, Al Mafjar
100x120cm
POA
Al Mafjar is an abandoned village on the north east coast of the Qatar peninsula. My novel 'The House of Fortune' begins in the village, when pearl-diving families lived there in the 1920s.
I chose to paint this particular house as I like the forms of the building and spaces against the backdrop of the sand and sea. It is a reminder of a simpler life now gone for good.
Sunday Morning, Dungeness
120 x 100 cm
£895
Shallow Water, Whitstable
120 x 100cm
£895
Coming Home
70 x 50cm
£350
Paddlers, Tankerton
70 x 50cm
£425
Single Man,
Dancing Alone
I painted this for the book cover of Single Man, Dancing Alone which will be out later in 2021. It follows on from my previous book'The House of Fortune.' Although it is a novel it is semi-autobiographical based on the time I worked in the Middle East, notably Qatar from 1975 to 2000. The novel extends from that period until the present day.
POA
Single Man,
Dancing Alone (detail)
Moroccan Slippers, Marrakesh
50 x 40cm
£350
Walking to Hampton
70 x 50cm
£495
Telegraph Poles and Wires, Dungeness
60 x 90cm
£525
SOLD
Stop Me and Buy One!
60 x 90cm
£450
A Walk Along the Beach
30 x 25cm
£225
Beach Walk and Talk
30 x 25cm
£225
Sunday Morning, Tankerton
60 x 90cm
£495
SOLD
Yellow Line
90 x 60cm
£495
Sunday on the Sands
45 x 45cm
£450
Walkers on The Street Stones, Whitstable
30 x 25cm
£225
Morning Walk
30 x 25cm
£225
Margate, Winter
60 x 90cm
£495
The Old Neptune, Whitstable
100 x 100cm
£745
Seasalter Huts and Sheppey
100 x 100cm
£745
The Hampton Inn
100 x 100cm
£650
Margate Main Sands
50 x 100cm
£575
Seasalter
25 x 35cm
£220
Graveney Marshes
20 x 50cm
£175
The Sportsman, Seasalter
20 x 50cm
£175
Dungeness, Approaching the Little Railway
60 x 70cm
£375
The Neptune, Winter, Whitstable
60 x 90cm
£550
'Nothing with Nothing'
100 x 100cm
£895
SOLD
The House of Fortune
60 x 90cm
POA
The cover for The House of Fortune - historical novel based in Qatar in the early part of the 20th century
Follow the Camino
50 x 40cm
£350
Whitstable Harbour
30 x 40cm
£300
In the Land of Grey and Pink
90 x 60cm
£525
Walking to The Zetland Arms, Kingsdown
60 x 90cm
£495
Meeting Tom on the Way to Hampton
75 x 100cm
£545
"Puis-Je?"
50 x 40cm
£350
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