Artist Statement
I have always been a visual person for as long as I can remember. I expressed it through the clothing I wore, the paint colours I chose or the placement of pieces around my home or the homes of my friends. Whether I'm painting furniture, rug hooking or painting on canvas the love of gathering colour to create a harmonious existence has always given me a great feeling of satisfaction.
A renewed love of colour came with the birth of my children. Their drawings expressed simplicity, wild imaginations and of course a whole crayon box of colour. For the next eight years, I dove in to painting furniture, a school mural and I dabbled in the art of rug hooking thanks to a brilliant rug hooker named Jeanie Delaney. Then one night my very focused husband began to ask me a number of questions about what I was truly passionate about. I now believe he feared our home had become over run with refurbished garage sale finds and half finished hooked rugs. However, from these questions, I realized that colour and more specifically painting and drawing with vivid colour is what I am truly passionate about. That week he arrived home with a huge canvas and thus my love for colour began to evolve once again and my passion turned into what it is today. Whether I am in my studio working on a wall hanging or painting on canvas, I become lost in a world of colour, imagination and endless possibilities. Each new painting is as exciting as the last, and I usually do not know what I will paint until the moment I put brush to hand.
I take inspiration from my everyday life and I believe that if we truly take a moment to breathe all that we are meant to be will be revealed. It is my hope that my art inspires you and that my use of colour brightens your day.
Carpe Diem,
Kim
