About Kelli Foret
South Louisiana based artist, Kelli Foret Richard, has been honing her skills as an illustrator, artist and teaching artist for the past decade. Emerging into the art-world by way of her book, The Acadiana Art Trail, Kelli used the lessons she learned from publishing in her work as an illustrator helping other authors as well as local businesses and brands find their visual voice. She fell hard for her passion for visual arts and became a teaching artist whose mission is to share her experiences as a self-taught artist with young people.
Kelli’s evolution into social practice art allowed her to introduce her other passions for regenerative living practices and the dirt-bag lifestyle. Her work is deeply rooted in food sovereignty, regenerative agriculture and finding ways to reconnect with and heal the land. Her most recent work has propelled her into using her artwork for a deeper purpose; a personal legacy with the plants, with the soil, with humanity and our planet.
In addition to gardening, Kelli loves to hike and travel to the Western part of the USA to escape the Louisiana heat and admire the majestic mountains. You can find her living out of the back of a pickup truck with her husband and their beagle, Duke, for 2 months out of the year. Kelli’s happy place is the intersection between anything outdoors and art and she loves connecting with her followers over gardening, hiking, and travel.
Kelli is deeply influenced by people who live simplistic or alternative lifestyles built around slow and intentional living practices. She and her husband live on a permaculture homestead where they grow much of their own food and produce meat and eggs from their chickens and from fishing their pond. Their home is intentionally rustic and mostly a hodge-podge of found materials from tear-downs and the like.
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