Jane Kelly
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer/painter |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I was a what was once called a "Fleet Street journalist" for twenty exciting years, fifteen of them as a feature writer on the Daily Mail. I left there in 2005 and have since written two books; a biography of actor Colin Farrell published by John Blake and in 2009 I published, Inside, an account of my year teaching literacy and art inside HMP Wormwood Scrubs. That was published by the Social Affairs Unit. I write film reviews for the Salisbury Review Magazine and contribute diary stories to the national papers. My main interest is art, in particular painting. I have taken part in numerous exhibitions as a member of the Stuckist painters. I had a painting hung in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and a painting in the RA Summer Show. Until I was struck by cancer I hoped to make a new career as a portrait painter. I still hold on to that hope! |
| Interests | Painting, other painters living and dead, history, the theatre, politics, gardening, swimming. |
| Favorite Movies | Danton, The Pawnbroker, Trouble In Store, Went The Day Well, The White Ribbon. |
| Favorite Music | Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tom Waites, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Berg, Stravinsky, the Beatles, Bobby Darin.Mahler. |
| Favorite Books | Too many to say |
I read this as "Random Quotation." So here are two fine ones: "All men's failings I forgive in actors;no actor's failings will I forgive in men." Goethe. "Who has this great power to see clearly into himself without tergiversation, and act thence, will come to his destiny." Dag Hammarskjold. (I have no idea what this means, but I am saving it up to find out)