These pieces range from scribbles at the age of 2 1/2 - 3 1/2, to some of my elementary school crayon drawings in the early 1970s to sketches from my high school weekly grade nine sketch book at the age of 14 in 1977. All are NFS.

Credit goes to my Mom for preserving these childhood drawings. Much to my chagrin, she retrieved them many times from the garbage cans where I discarded them. I am still a notorious purger, and several of the finished studio paintings on this website also almost landed in my studio garbage can. Fortunately my husband Brad has the same tenacious spirit as my Mom did, and with his encouragement I resisted the urge to give up on certain pieces and am satisfied enough with the results to share them here with viewers. I hope you will enjoy joining me on this visual journey beginning with these childhood drawings. As you work your way through my various on line "galleries" the journey continues with groupings of paintings inspired by a variety of subject matter ranging from my traditional Christian hymn series, my starscape constellation series and various expeditions I have been blessed to go on since I began painting professionally in 2001 to paintings inspired here at home in my own backyard of rural Lakefield, Ontario.

- Kelly Dodge