QUINTE ARTS COUNCIL

Art provides the perfect outlet when life feels overwhelming, says Joanne Kells Chalmers—better known in the art world as Kells. An award-winning Greater Napanee artist, Kells finds that painting offers her a bolder voice, a way to share what’s on her mind with honesty and vibrancy.

Kells garnered attention at this year’s Expressions: Legacy exhibit, held at the John M. Parrott Gallery at the Belleville Public Library with her painting “Beauty and Beast”, which was given the People’s Choice Award.

Her latest exhibition this fall at the QAC Cultural Hub and Gallery, Flowers and Femininity, explores the intersection of nature’s beauty and women’s inner strength. Through bold brushstrokes and radiant colour, Kells celebrates resilience, vulnerability, and the many layer

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