Artist Bio
Bailey Kaye is an artist with experience in drawing, painting, sculpting, photography and digital art. Driven by her love for nostalgia and nature, her work has bright colors beautiful flowers and insects that represent a memorial for her life. Since Bailey was a child she couldn’t put down a pencil and her passion for making art has always been second nature. Typically when faced with challenging events in her life, her first place to turn is the canvas. Although highly symbolic, she hopes her paintings tell a story to her audience.
After moving her home studio from Texas to Alabama to pursue her athletic career, Bailey Takes in the new inspiration in the nature that surrounds her. Although she didn’t shift her focus from drawing to painting primarily until college Bailey has sold many paintings of flowers, butterflies and surreal nature scenes during her four years at university.
Bailey also hopes to have a career helping others with their memories as she seeks to pursue a masters in counseling to become an art therapist and help others who experienced primary loss like she did at a young age. Although that is her passion she still wants to continue her own Work and Believes she will continue to paint her memories for the rest of her life.
Areas of Expertise
Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Design.
My most recent works draw imagery and metaphors from my mental health journey. I explore themes of mortality, loss, and nostalgia and am drawn to the visual representation of organic themes - especially insects and botanical images. I navigate and process many of my feelings by how flowers are used in funerary rituals and how floral arrangements are used as a token of and correspondence with sympathy. Flowers help me see and understand the beauty in life, even during grief. To me they’ve been a comfort within harsh reality. Flowers have symbolic meaning in life and art history, but through my experiences in life I’ve found my own meanings while representing botanical, animal, and familial studies. A common motivator among all humans is following a sense of nostalgia and the foundations of our lives are built upon memories. My own nostalgia and memories are what primarily inspires my art. To me, my art provides a therapeutic freedom from painful memories as well as a memorialization of happy moments.
Email
bktindell@gmail.com