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KEYS KINTSUGI:

HEALING, MEMORY & REBIRTH

Islamorada, FL Set intimately in the new Roberto Russell
gallery space with a view of the bay, collectors are invited to
disappear into the watery vistas created by Camilla Webster,
emerging with a renewed sense of peace.

“Keys Kintsugi” is a new body of work inspired by the artist’s
healing experience in the Florida Keys and her family’s centu-
ry old great love of the area’s oceans and environment.
Drawing from the Japanese art of kintsugi, splashes of gold
meander through each painting. In kintsugi pottery, imper-
fections and cracks are accentuated and celebrated with a
gold overlay allowing the flaws themselves to shine through,
suggesting that there is new beauty and increased value not
only in the cracks of pottery, but in the cracks of life itself. This
work was inspired by a time of loss and renewal in the artist’s
own life but also by the devastation and recovery of a com-
munity after Hurricane Irma. Webster’s message is to declare
that life is always beautiful, even in the realms of great trage-
dy, and that art has the power to heal. From October to De-
cember of this year, Webster’s complete Keys Kintsugi collec-
tion will be exhibited in Islamorada at Ocean Sotheby’s Ro-
berto Russell Gallery.