Paintings With Soul

  Rabbit Rabbit 2025 view her on my website Rabbit Rabbit 2025, original acrylic on flat panel, 16”x20”, $850 plus s&h. I welcome your questions (yes, I offer payment plans - details below). Just  reach out . I hadn’t planned on painting yesterday, but I sort of had no choice when I woke up to the news. I needed to process things, and for me the best place to do that is at the easel.  This is a painting of a rabbit done overtop another rabbit painting ("rabbit rabbit" is a superstitious saying meant to bring good luck on the first of the year/month), filled with poppies (a symbol of remembrance and hope), injected with some borealis coloring (the vastness of the universe is always a healthy dose of awe and humility), done on the first day of 2025. She is my prayer for our world in 2025. My heart is with New Orleans today and anyone else impacted by  gun violence. You can get your nose right into Rabbit Rabbit 2025 over  on my website , where you can view her...

  Transience view her on my website Transience, original acrylic on flat panel, 24”x24”, $1200 plus s&h. I always welcome your questions (yes, I offer payment plans - details below). Just  reach out . Pema Chodrom says, “I am the sky, the rest is just weather.”  Part maelstrom, part light after the storm, Transience is a painting imbued with hope. The sun, anchored inside the rabbit while simultaneously glowing from behind, rests at the heart of our universe.  Transience showed up the week of Hurricane Helene. Little did I know when I mapped out the marketing for this painting that Milton was close behind. Please, all in the path of these incomprehensible storms, be safe.   You are invited to view Transience  on my website , inside a room setting and up close, like nose to the canvas up close. The link to purchase is also there.  Let me know  if you would like a payment plan (30% non refundable deposit with the balance plus shipping paid in fu...

  Coexist, 36"x48"x1-1/2" original painting, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas (image painted around the sides so no pressing need to frame), $5000, plus s&h. This painting (canvas only) will ship rolled and require restretching at the collector's end, which is easily coordinated with a quality framer.   Please reach out  with any questions. Coexist is my response to the inhumanity that we seem so hell bent inflicting upon each other. I started her within days of the Israeli-Palestinian war, but it would be unfair to say that she also wasn't informed by other world events and political unrest. This painting is dense with texture and infused with prayer. The surface is scarred, as are the fox and rabbit, as are the cultures at war. I hope to have conveyed an acceptance or reconciliation, the hope of a new era, despite decades of ignorance. I realized that my paintings have been prayers for a long time. And when I acknowledged that, I felt a wee bit empowered. ...

  Coexist, 36"x48" original painting, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas. Coexist will be available through   University Liggett Schools   as part of my upcoming exhibition Fox, which runs November 10 - December 13. Coexist is $5000, with the purchaser collecting her in person at the end of the exhibition (Liggett does not offer shipping). And, yes, if she ends up coming back to the studio, I will offer her (along with other Fox inventory) to collectors requesting shipment.  Please reach out  with any questions. I don't think I have ever gone a full two weeks without a newsletter before! Typically I send them out when I have new work to offer, and I currently have a good amount of that at the moment, as I am putting together the final touches for my next solo show. But the thing with exhibitions is that the work has to be available for purchase. Which means I ceased sending newsletters out because I did not want to tease you by sharing paintings th...

  Equinox, 18"x24", acrylic on flat panel, $1000 plus s&h. Link to purchase is below. A couple years back I had this seemingly brilliant idea of painting a transparent rabbit growing from a tree canopy. When I get these ideas, I can't actually see them in my head. It's my habit to just dive in painting, trusting that during the process the details will coalesce.  So while working on this tree canopy rabbit I arrived at an mid point that I found oddly beautiful but very much unresolved. I had no idea where she was going, but I was fascinated. I could have stopped there and regrouped, but I didn't. Instead I opted to push forward with the tree concept. And I wrecked the painting. To this day I have regretted that. Earlier this week I decided to consciously recreate that middle and fascinating point of the ruined painting. And this time the resolution (NOT the tree canopy!) was so simple to see! The concept fit nearly perfectly into the Rococo sky format painting...

  Chasing Rabbits, 24"x24" (circular), acrylic on a cradled round panel with a 1" profile, image painted around the sides so no need to frame, $1800 plus s&h   to the first asking nicely . Questions can always come   to me. I keep picturing this as a center medallion on a fabulous coffered ceiling  while I lie on the floor directly underneath it and just daydream. She will also be pretty darned amazing hung on a wall, oozing magic into her surroundings, while you sit across the room and bask in it. I think her magic is infection - you might even start to sparkle yourself. Here is the link to purchase  Chasing Rabbits . Also, scroll down for details on the newest free streamable art journaling session Thoughts & Prayers. Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork, All my best, warmly, Kim   available paintings reproductions join my First Dibs collectors club Watching Paint Dry, a live q&a event my student membership & online classroom Rec...

Rococo, 24"x30", acrylic on a flat panel, $1300 plus s&h to   the first asking nicely . Questions can always come   to me. I am obsessed with these billowy skies My favorite art history professor despised  Rococo paintings . They quickened my heart, but I pushed that away as he berated their sentimental, over the top, flouncy layers of clouds, foliage and fluttering textiles. After all, he was the expert, right?  Recently I rediscovered them and remembered how much they pleased me. Apologies, Dr. van Liere, but I can no longer ignore their pull. Here is the link for  Rococo . This one was also inspired by Peter Sis. I cannot get enough of his picture book for adults  The Conference of the Birds . Each spread is lush with various design ideas. Substitute rabbit for bird, add my own brushwork and color sensibilities and some Rococo skies, and, voila ( Steal Like an Artist , by Austin Kleon, not to be confused with copyright infringement, by the way). Than...

  Resolute, 16x20, acrylic on a gallery wrapped oval stretched canvas, sides painted so no need to frame, $960 plus s&h to   the first asking nicely . And of course, questions can always come   to me. it was important to me  (for some unknown reason) that the first painting of this year be a rabbit. Folklore claims that saying "rabbit rabbit" first thing on the first day of the month will bring luck, so perhaps I was projecting this belief to my portfolio wishes for the new year. (and having just signed my second painting of 2023, I can say that it might be working!) You can view a larger image of Resolute   here , check out the details, even see her installed in a room. You can also view other available artworks through the same link. Thanks so much for following along with - and supporting - my art journey, warmly, Kim

  One of a handful of recycled drawings   currently listed on my website . This one was done on a birthday card envelope and carries hints of my girlfriend's handwriting. With these personal bits of ephemera the work feels more private (at least to me), perhaps because it carries traces of loved ones.  Inquiries are always welcome .  There's a nice selection of drawings I added to my website yesterday.  I am fascinated by how the substrate sort of steers the feel of the work. And how I respond to envelopes/material that has handwriting. Someone else has started the drawing in a way, via the energy of their own script. And while I was thrilled to get some red envelopes in the mail the other day, I am challenged in getting the drawing to pop - nice reminder that red falls at the dark end of the value spectrum, so my drawing/lines need to be at the opposite end. You can   shop available work here . Thanks so much for following along with - and supporting - my ...

  These drawings, all done on recycled materials, are now available   on my website . All because you asked.  when I began doing daily warmup drawings last month I foolishly thought they were just for me But you set me straight. You said you wanted them. And you said "please?" So, a couple times each week you will find a handful of these listed on my website. I'll try to send a newsletter out as well, but I will be be mindful of how many emails we all get on a daily basis. I don't want to contribute to all the noise. I'll pack sales over the weekend and ship early the following week. I cannot guarantee holiday delivery at this point unless priority/overnight shipping is purchased. I will work with those of you who do wish to have your drawings asap, though. And thank you so much for your interest in my work. I continue to be surprised and motivated by your enthusiasm. Click here to view details of each piece and to purchase the available drawings.   PLEASE NOTE: R...

  NOW AVAILABLE "Geranium," 24"x20", acrylic mixed media on panel, $1100 plus s&h to   the first asking nicely.  Please send any questions  my way  and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. Geranium and a few of her friends are looking for permanent homes. You can   see them over on my website   - and yes, I will combine shipping. The next studio sale will be focused on momma bears, and most likely happen by the end of this month. If you can't wait that long, I do have   Moss   and   Wander  immediately available. Thanks for taking the time to look at my work, Be well and be inspired, Kim

  i am hopping into summer with a handful of bunny paintings.... (sorry, couldn't resist a bad pun!!) On June 10th at noon eastern, you will find the listing for the above paintings on my website, inside my portfolio under "Available."  Here is a direct link to that page  - just remember that the paintings won't show up until the scheduled time.     If you would like to see detailed images of the paintings prior to the sales' start, please use the links below: Synapse Geranium Molytva Promise Wild Iris At the specified time, the paintings will be added to those on my  "Available Paintings" page , with an "Add to Cart" button (interested buyers will click on the image of the painting they wish, and on the subsequent page choose the "Add to Cart" button). Once a collector completes the sale, the "Add to Cart" button is no longer available.  Again, you will not see the new paintings on the page until noon eastern on the 10th. H...

  "Wild Iris," 20"x30"x1-1/2", acrylic mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, image painted around the sides so no need to frame. Wild Iris will be available to purchase next month, along with several other rabbit paintings. And who knows, I might throw a fox in there - or something else as a surprise! Inquiries may always come   to me . It's bunny season in the studio Seems like spring has been ushering rabbits on to my easel for a couple of years now. I paint intuitively, which means life circumstances to steer my subject matter. Each day I ask myself what to invite into my paintings based on the things I have seen and felt. One such source is my dreams, and I can tell you my dreams have been hopping lately. Some say that dreaming of rabbits symbolizes prosperity and good fortune. Others interpretate rabbit as a trickster. I often think that, as prey animals, rabbits represent vulnerability and fear. Iris also symbolize a variety of things - wisdom, hope,...