About

Jay Kelly grew up in New York and New Jersey, studied liberal arts at Boston University and was in the full-time ministry for 28 years, 20 of them in Seattle.  During his years in Seattle he studied at the Gage Academy of Art with a focus on painting in oil: portrait, landscape and still life.  Jay is also a graduate of the Studio Arts Intensive program at Gage.

Having recently stepped out of ministry and relocated to his wife's hometown of Norwich, Connecticut, he has devoted himself to art full-time and the pursuit of his MFA.  

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