HELLO

Kelsi Turner is a writer and visual artist who makes art as a way to deeply observe, delight in and steward place.

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After a lifetime of continuous, frantic moving left her feeling like a skipping stone – skimming over places and experiences but rarely touching down – she has finally made her home in Montana. She believes that staying in place can be a radical rather than a conservative act.

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Her work has its roots in the curious treasures with which her children fill their pockets, still life paintings, abstraction and the field journals of early explorers.

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She seeks to live the explorer’s life in place. Highly sensitive to landscapes and seasons, Kelsi is inspired by the wildness that surrounds her.

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She is delighted when art, science, conservation and wonder overlap.

 

Kelsi is currently enrolled in the Natural Science Illustration certificate program at the Rhode Island School of Design and serves as the Ambassador of Wonder for Random Acts of Silliness.

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