Lady of the Lake II Ed. 1 of 20

These works were conceptualised while out in far northwest Queensland on the banks of the Einasleigh River.

While sitting around a campfire telling stories I felt an eerie yet beautiful feeling that we were not alone, souls with stories of days past lingered here. Many have sat in the same place as we had, by the glow of the flickering flame, reflecting, in awe of the beauty and the silence.

For these images I took inspiration from the Award Winning Australian Bush Poet Terry Piggotts beautifully penned poem 'Lady of the Lakes'.

Terry wrote this poem in the memory of a ‘Lady’, (A gold fossicker), who was extremely accomplished in the way of fossicking back in the Gold Rush days here in Australia. She was known to all, as The Lady of the Lakes, a name she gained from her choice of places to fossick for gold, always on or around Lakes, including the great Salt Lakes. She was a strong formidable woman, and a trailblazer for other women fossickers of that time.

She perished in search of her fortune, but her legacy lives on in Australian Bush History, I wanted to honour her and all those who went after her in these images.

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"I am a visual artist with a deep desire to connect to nature, to my audience and to myself.  I play with nature, movement, light and texture, to create evocative, figurative images, which are connected to the subconscious".   

Self Portrait artist Kellie North creates thought-provoking, beautiful imagery of the feminine form. Capturing feminine, mostly faceless figures draped in billowing fabric in water or juxtaposed against the ruggedness of the natural environment.

Her work has been described as visual poetry – it’s highly emotive and unwaveringly evocative.  Her art explores the vivid contrast of fluid organic shapes and the natural world, it celebrates their differences yet unites them, creating a lasting impression with the viewer.  Not one for treading the traditional photographic line, Kellie often likes to combine her natural forms and landscapes with surreal elements, using carefully refined composite and digital art techniques.

This visual storyteller's artistic pursuits have taken her across the globe to the UK, America, India and Asia.

"I have always enjoyed listening to peoples stories and in turn love the reciprocity of telling my own". "Photography is a wonderful medium in which you can tell a story, be it documentary or fine art".

Kellie's philosophy about art, centres around honesty.  “I believe the more authenticity and emotion you put into your pieces, the more you connect with them, and in turn, others will hopefully connect with them too".

Kellie’s work has been featured in numerous publications, industry magazines and on TV together with her work being exhibited in galleries nationally as both group and or solo shows.