Prevailing Winds

Description

Mark Kellett’s Prevailing Winds is a vibrant and rhythmic exploration of gesture and atmosphere. Rendered in rich layers of silkscreen, the work evokes the sensation of movement and change—its title echoed in the sweeping arcs and serpentine currents that ripple across the surface. Cool aquatic tones merge with earthier hues in a composition that feels suspended between abstraction and landscape, reminiscent of wind over water or shifting weather systems.

Kellett, known for his lyrical approach to printmaking, orchestrates a visual current that flows diagonally across the picture plane. Flecks and flourishes of red, navy, and charcoal punctuate the field like coded notations—calligraphic yet spontaneous—suggesting musicality as much as meteorology. The composition invites the viewer into an environment of motion: not a literal place, but a sensed one, alive with drift and directional force.

There is a kinship here with the gestural abstraction of artists like Helen Frankenthaler or the fluidity of 1980s lyrical abstraction, yet Kellett’s voice is distinct in its balance of elegance and velocity. Prevailing Winds is meditative and kinetic, controlled yet free—a print that quietly shifts the atmosphere of a room.

Condition: Newly framed

Vertical
36
Horizontal
48
Depth
2