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 |