Kelly Paige Standard - a depictive oil painter - specializes in painting people.  Her hauntingly accessible figures radiate with an honest balance of joy and sadness.  Using strong values and colors, she explores and celebrates the best parts of being human.  Kelly's paintings are often solitary, occasionally piercing, but always mysteriously truthful and radiant.

Born December 1st, 1973 in San Diego, she quickly developed a love for the arts.  She gravitated to drawing and painting during her grammar and high school years, during which time she studied with the late, Lela Harty, an oil painter and acclaimed painting teacher.  In fact, it was a color theory class she took with Harty before heading off to university that armed her with technique - while college provided the challenge of artful communication.  Her discipline and painting ability earned her a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in 1995.  Then only days after graduation, Kelly took a job at Robson Gallery, downtown in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, where she absorbed a great deal about gallery business, and spent her days among incredible paintings by John Asaro, Walt Gonske, William Sharer, and the like.

After a couple of years, Kelly entered the video game industry, digitally painting for innovative projects.  Still she would come home at night to paint in oils.  The very long hours of the industry reinforced her intense work ethic, and made her financially able to transition into a full-time life of fine art.  Oil painting has always been Kelly's expression of choice.  As she lives and grows in her career, she continues to inspire a surprisingly wide range of people through her work.  She has painted numerous portraits, (several of them memorials), and has sold over 250 paintings in that time.


FORMERLY REPRESENTED BY: 
Mountainside Gallery, Carmel, CA
Timmons Galleries, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

Kelly spent years qualifying for groups like Oil Painters of America and American Impressionist Society.  She was awarded a painters' painter ribbon (a high compliment), and an honorable mention.  While she had some good experiences and met some great people, she just don't feel like the dues, the travel fees, or the hotel stays for these things are currently in her best interest. Social media has blossomed since the beginning of her career.  It has complicated some things.  She honestly never imagined that she'd have to be considering algorithms at the ripe age of 51, but here we are.

There is no 'buy now' button on this site because Kelly likes to do things more personally than that.  Selling her paintings feels more, to her, like adopting out puppies.  Her family grows with nearly every single sale or commission she does.