Lily Kennard is an oil painter based in Santa Cruz, California. She graduated with a degree in Psychology and Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2021. Lily uses both of her degrees to explore psychological interests through painting.

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Lily focuses on themes around mental health, specifically unhealthy patterns that anxiety disorders create. She uses patterns in her paintings to depict mental and physical compulsions seen in disorders like obsessive compulsive disorder.

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Lily is also interested in the relationship between art and viewer and likes to create a sense of movement within the viewer. She does this by cutting up her paintings and reorienting them in different formations. This interactivity between the viewer and painting creates art in itself and blurs the line between “artist” and “viewer”.

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Lily is currently exploring different mediums and is pursuing her MFA.