Kendra Kett

Kendra Kett’s mixed media work investigates the quiet, transformative processes of healing and renewal following personal loss, trauma, or core wounding. Through abstraction, symbolic color, and meticulously rendered detail, her pieces offer a powerful visual language that speaks to both individual experience and shared human themes.

Each work serves as a portal into Kett’s internal world — a synthesis of memory, emotion, and lived experience — distilled into form and color. Her art is autobiographical at its core, yet resonant with universal emotional truths. Kett’s art explores how healing manifests not only in sweeping moments of transformation but in subtle, cellular shifts — breath by breath, moment by moment.

Her signature use of organic shapes and vivid color palettes is inspired by imagined visions of molecular and cellular interactions — visual metaphors for the inner work of healing and regeneration. These abstract forms suggest an invisible architecture of change, a visual narrative of inner repair and growth.

At the heart of the work is an exploration of emotional duality. Many pieces grapple with the coexistence of seemingly opposing feelings: sorrow and joy, anger and compassion, loneliness and love. Kett’s art makes space for these tensions, offering a nuanced reflection of the emotional complexity often absent from mainstream narratives.

All of the art in Kendra’s Blue Moon Collection is available for purchase.

Send inquiries to kendra@thebluemoongallery.com or text 224-388-7948

Blanket Statements

The blanket is a universal symbol for protection, warmth, and comfort. Cultures all over the world revere the blanket as a sacred gift to others to show caring and respect. The blanket also connotes security (a toddler’s security blanket), calming and soothing (swaddling a crying infant), and a sense of belonging (family blankets tossed over the couch for coziness and snuggling). We all know the importance of a blanket as a preschooler’s “love object” (the ever-yearned-for “blankie”) for the comfort and familiarity it brings. Blankets are also about warmth when we are cold and nurturance when we are sick. Finally, to wrap someone in a blanket shows a profound act of love and kindness. It is my hope that my Healing Blankets will elicit all of these thoughts and emotions in their viewers.

Framing

Works on paper are professionally framed by ArtWorks in Kenosha WI.

Frames are maple wood or matte black metal with 8-ply extra thick museum-style matting using all archival materials.

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