Ursula Kellett

British artist Ursula Kellett explores abstraction through a richly tactile engagement with materials, colour and surface. Based in London, her practice bridges the expressive energy of urban life with a contemplative attention to texture and form. Over time she has developed a distinctive visual language driven by experimentation and a fluid interplay between organic gesture and material presence. 

Kellett’s work often incorporates an unusual range of materials — including natural earth, sand, pigments, lacquers, paper and found elements — which are combined with traditional media to generate surfaces that are visually and physically resonant. This layered approach allows inherent material characteristics to shape composition, yielding fluid forms and complex tactile fields that recall natural patterns without literal representation. 

Her paintings and mixed‑media pieces are attentive to the passage of time and the rhythms of experience. Energy and movement are embedded within surfaces through contrasts of texture and colour, while areas of quiet openness allow for perceptual stillness.

Kellett’s work moves beyond immediate depiction, inviting close attention and reflection. 

Working with an experimental spirit, she extends the possibilities of abstraction through a balance of control and chance. Whether on canvas, board or metal panel, her compositions register an intuitive response to the world — a poetics of surface and sensation that unfolds in subtle shifts of tone, scale and material presence