lily keller

artist, and painting teacher

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about

Thank you for being here in my virtual studio! I’m Lily—painter and art teacher, writer, photographer, tarot reader and astrologer. I have a life-long love affair with truly seeing our world, the people in it, and I especially love coastal marshlands, the Everglades, old houses, and promoting the conservation of wild spaces.

I love to collaborate on projects and I am obsessed with the way art can elevate the energy of your spaces—and in turn your life.

I am a mom to three boys, and we love to spend as much time together and outdoors as possible: hiking, swimming, sailing, spray-painting in the backyard…all the things. We lived aboard a sailboat for 5 years, and I still love to travel with them as much as possible. My studio is in Miami, but our hearts are somewhere in between here, Stowe and Martha’s Vineyard, places we try to get back to as often as possible.

artist bio

Lily is a self-taught oil painter born in Miami in 1981. A lifelong traveler, whose first career was working with refugees in the Middle East, Lily approaches each painting with a deep respect for sense of place. Growing up in Florida, she was always longing to be elsewhere, and the idea of “elsewhere” gained mythic proportions in her imagination. She is especially enthralled by the feelings that different locations can give us, both physical and universal.

 Lily’s work takes these tensely intertwined feelings of freedom and nostalgia and works them together in full color on canvas. Her graduate work in Anthropology of the Middle East was focused largely around symbology and religions, and she weaves these universal symbols through her work today, enhanced by her continuing study of astrology and the tarot.

Lily’s work is held in private collections across America, Canada, and in Europe, Australia, and Hong Kong. She has had solo exhibitions in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard and has been featured in Artsy, Superfine! Art Show, Voyage Miami, All SHE MAKES Magazine, The Vineyard Gazette, HGTV, Cape Cod Life Magazine, House and Garden, and is on the Create Magazine, The Art Queens, and All She Makes international artist directories. When not painting she can generally be found on or in the water, adventuring with her boys.

To connect further, join Lily over on instagram @lilykkeller and TikTok @lilykkeller

Follow along on Youtube at www.youtube.com/@neondunesART to watch guided painting demos, oil and watercolor technique videos, and studio life vlogs