Author Description

Georgia artist Mattie Lou O'Kelley compellingly captured the comfort, security, companionship, and nurturing love provided by close family relationships in her 24 "Moving" pictures, which she created in 1987 - 1989 to illustrate her children's book, Moving to Town. The strong, recurring, autobiographical aspects of these paintings suggest that the facts of the artist's life are integral to her works. O'Kelley's words and pictures tell the tale of a family who abandon their farm for life in the city, then return to their country home less than a year later.