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This week my guest is Kelly Vance. Kelly is a figurative artist from Texas. She got her BFA from the University of North Texas in Denton and her MFA from the University of Houston.

Kelly grew up looking at symbolist paintings.

Her work hearkens back to the same ideologies, that art should reflect an emotion or idea rather

than strictly the natural world.

Her current paintings of women explore spirituality and invite the viewer to decipher their

meaning.

In this episode, we talk about where her ideas come from, how she brings her vision to life by inviting friends to model for her,

and her faith that the work will always find its audience as long as she's persistent.

Kelly and I also talk about what it is that makes her want to just

rip into a painting as soon as she gets into the studio. Museum trips and

outdoor excursions are part of what feed her enthusiasm for painting. She is a girl

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