About The Artist

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0cbf0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div>     <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >       </FONT><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >PARROTGIRL PRINTS</FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><A HREF="mailto: parrotgirl@adelphia.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: parrotgirl@adelphia.net"><U>parrotgirl@adelphia.net</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0caf2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="070aead0.jpg" border=0 width="174" height="173" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About The Artist"><U><IMG SRC="0da18180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Garamond" ><B>About The </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>      Artist </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Spirit of Gloucester"><U><IMG SRC="0da18180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Garamond" ><B>Fine Art</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prices / Ordering Infomation"><U><IMG SRC="0da18180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Garamond" ><B>Prices/Ordering</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>           Information</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artist For Hire"><U><IMG SRC="0da18180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Garamond" ><B>Artist for</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>       Hire/ Links </B></div> <div> <B>   </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0cdf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I>About The Artist</I></div> <div> Kelly Ann Raver, born Kelly Ann McMullen, was born in 1967, in Upstate New York. She was taught to appreciate visual art, and improve her budding talent, by her wonderful art teacher,  Mr. Rushton Saltsman, throughout high school, at Mohonason Sr. High School, in Schenectady, NY .  During this time she had won positions in many different prestigious art shows, such as, 4th Place in the 1985 Suksdorf Invitational Art Exhibition, and 2nd Place in the Schenectady, NY  Woman's Club of America Art Contest, also, in 1985. </div> <bR> <div> She decided after high school to use her talents as only a hobby, and pursued other interests and goals.  One of Kelly's interest was aviculture (the keeping of pet birds), in particular, parrots. She has spent much of her time learning about  the proper care of these beautiful animals.</div> <bR> <div> In 1997, her husband, Howard, took a job on the North Shore of Boston, and Gloucester, Ma,  has now become permanent home to their family, which includes their companion parrots, Ruby, a Red Belly Poicephalous Parrot, Percy, a Hahn's Macaw, Gulliver, a Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure, and Clementine and Joey, both, canaries.  She is a breeder of Lady Gouldian Finches.  </div> <bR> <div> Kelly's beloved parrot, Ruby, has been seriously ill with chronic respiratory infections since she got her, and has finally become resisitant to the antibiotics that treat these infections. In order to help pay for the bird's ongoing  medical expenses, she has created a site for Parrotgirl Prints, where she originally sold prints of her original work, but now does mostly commissioned work. </div> <bR> <div> Some pieces of her work, depicting indigenous animals of the Cape Ann area, where she lives, is displayed, and can be viewed at Art 2000, in Magnolia, Ma.  However, this work is copyrighted for Art 2000, and is not available on this site.</div> <bR> <div> Kelly  participated in Artist In The Garden, in Wenham, Ma, on June 3, 2000. It was sponsored by The Hamilton-Wenham Garden Club, and was a tour of many private gardens, to which artists were invited to draw the lovely scenery at their assigned garden.</div> <bR> <div> Her avian  work  was sold at the 14th Annual Birds of A Feather Bird Show at the National Guard Armory in Nashua, New Hampshire.</div> <bR> <div> And, on September 21, 2000 her original pieces, Harbor Seals of Cape Ann, Ma, and Polar Bears were critiqued by a panel of professional artists, at the North Shore Art Association.  She was very appreciative for the advice she was given, and altogether very pleased with the comments she received. </div> <bR> <div> More recently, her illustrations were completed for a children's parrot book, Peek- a Boo parrots, written by Canadian author, Ian Leech, which can now be purchased by printing the form on that page of this web site.</div> <bR> <div> You can own her unique, beautiful and professional pieces, suitable for framing.......Parrots that look real enough that they look like they can talk...  and many other surprises, now, and more to come.</div> <bR> <div>                                                               <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><A HREF="mailto: parrotgirl@adelphia.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: parrotgirl@adelphia.net"><U>parrotgirl@adelphia.net</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div>                         </div> </td> </tr></table></body>