Transcending Light

Catalogue Notes by John O'Donohue

"In the work of Charlotte Kelly that I love, light becomes an event. Landscapes are evoked with such subtlety and strangeness .... as though they were creations of the light itself. Somehow she manages to imbue them with an aura of true emergence; it is as if they were seeing themselves for the first time in light, pushing and probing it until the painting becomes utterly haunting and memorable"