The Humanity Collection
The Humanity Collection is a series of 40 oil paintings by Edinburgh born artist Martin Kelly completed at the end of 2012; although the artist didn't decide on completion until 2013.
The collection started by the artist in 2007 reflects the many aspects of life that mankind faces, dissecting human emotion from our strengths to our flaws; love, hate, passion, desire, joy, greed, pity, anger, grief, loss...
At first glance the collection may be felt to have a religious or spiritual theme based around angels but the subject matter could not be intended to be further from this. Inspired by the vast array of emotions and situations that the human race can experience, the series further reflects the mixed emotions with the mixed use of styles and techniques and the wings merely act as a link to articulate the relationship from painting to painting and cement each painting as part of a collection. This is not to say that religion and spirituality is not an aspect of humanity and in fact views on these matters can spark the heights of love to the depths of war and hell; therefore the artist has left the meaning of each painting open to interpretation to the viewer to contemplate their own drama rather than explain the spark of creativity behind the detail of each painting.
The collection started by the artist in 2007 reflects the many aspects of life that mankind faces, dissecting human emotion from our strengths to our flaws; love, hate, passion, desire, joy, greed, pity, anger, grief, loss...
At first glance the collection may be felt to have a religious or spiritual theme based around angels but the subject matter could not be intended to be further from this. Inspired by the vast array of emotions and situations that the human race can experience, the series further reflects the mixed emotions with the mixed use of styles and techniques and the wings merely act as a link to articulate the relationship from painting to painting and cement each painting as part of a collection. This is not to say that religion and spirituality is not an aspect of humanity and in fact views on these matters can spark the heights of love to the depths of war and hell; therefore the artist has left the meaning of each painting open to interpretation to the viewer to contemplate their own drama rather than explain the spark of creativity behind the detail of each painting.
On this page is a selection from the collection however the full collection can be found in the Humanity Gallery by clicking here.