"Everyone is an artist in his dreams" Sigmund Freud

I always loved painting. As a small boy I was always drawing. I finished year 12 dux in art, at Scotch College Melbourne. I wanted to study art at RMIT but my parents were keen for me to become a lawyer and pushed me into studying Law at Melbourne University. Architecture was my first choice but I had no maths or sciences and so I agreed to study Law. After one year I persuaded my parents and the Architecture faculty professors to allow me into the Architecture school and I went on to graduate 6 years later. I worked as an Architect and in the building industry in Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland and overseas in London and Canada. Whenever the opportunity arose I painted, mainly land and sea scapes and eventually went off to take a course of painting at a local art school. I resettled in Queensland buying an old house at Mt. Tamborine in the hinterland of the Gold Coast where I set up a studio and Art Gallery. Exhibitions followed there and in Melbourne and overseas. About 10 years ago while renovating homes in Melbourne, I started painting again in a Caulfield studio.

Melbourne based, I now teach portrait painting to private students, in corporate training programs and at leading schools. I have developed a unique and accurate system that doesn't require a high level of technical ability and can easily be mastered by those with little painting experience.

As well as portraits I paint and sell landscapes and figurative subjects.

My works can be seen on his web site, www.jeffreykelson.vpweb.com.au as well as social media sites, FaceBook, Plaxo, Artwalk & RedBubble.

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