By NATALIE GALLENTI-BREKALO
A SEAHOLME mother-of-two is turning her artistic dreams into reality and creating a unique style of art for her audience.
After 40 years of drawing and portrait painting, Kerrie Gottliebsen began studying the photographic effect of bokeh last year and has not looked back.
Kerrie said her paintings were like dreams and offered the viewer a feeling of transcending past and present.
“There is something about blurred and mottled light that is like a dream,” she said.
“The style is absolutely hypnotic and created a real mind shift for me.
“After painting pictures of children and dogs for a long time, I have become so passionate about this.”
Kerrie said she often went out at dusk as the sun was going down to capture the amazing contrast between dark and light, and then interpreted the photographs she had taken with oils on canvas.
Each painting takes about a month to create and is painstakingly completed with a fine brush.
But she says all the hard work and long hours in front of an easel are worth it.
“I become totally lost in the moment, it’s really intoxicating.
“I might be right in the middle of painting a dew drop on the end of the branch and anything could be happening around me. It’s a great form of medication.”
Kerrie’s latest exhibition My Blurry Life is on at the Yacht Club Hotel in Williamstown as part of Hobsons Bay City Council’s Art in Public Places project.
