About Kimm
My work always centres on direct observation; being on the spot, painting and drawing directly from life. I enjoy the remote, the dramatic and the beautiful - the west coast of Scotland, the Picos de Europa range in Spain - massive mountains, exciting city buildings, bridges and structures.
I spend a lot of time going out into the country painting and drawing directly from nature. The immediate challenge is to achieve a composition and capture the light, on site, in real time. The field work has an immediacy and a spontaneous freshness all of its own.
These outdoor works form the basis for more formal paintings completed in the studio where composition and structure come into their own. The challenge here is to make the painting a mechanism to show and reconstruct an event experienced - the tide running, the winter sun breaking through cloud on the shortest day. Shapes, colours and structure recreate the event on the canvas. This leads to composition where rhythm and colour combine with image and meaning to create a piece that can have many levels.
I started drawing at the age of 8 and went on to study painting at Kingston Art College and the Royal Academy Schools, London. Throughout my art practice, I ensure several creative strands - painting - making and inventing and teaching. I enjoy sharing ideas and developing them through painting, building creative playground installations, writing books on painting and running classes.
My work always centres on direct observation; being on the spot, painting and drawing directly from life. I enjoy the remote, the dramatic and the beautiful - the west coast of Scotland, the Picos de Europa range in Spain - massive mountains, exciting city buildings, bridges and structures.
I spend a lot of time going out into the country painting and drawing directly from nature. The immediate challenge is to achieve a composition and capture the light, on site, in real time. The field work has an immediacy and a spontaneous freshness all of its own.
These outdoor works form the basis for more formal paintings completed in the studio where composition and structure come into their own. The challenge here is to make the painting a mechanism to show and reconstruct an event experienced - the tide running, the winter sun breaking through cloud on the shortest day. Shapes, colours and structure recreate the event on the canvas. This leads to composition where rhythm and colour combine with image and meaning to create a piece that can have many levels.
I started drawing at the age of 8 and went on to study painting at Kingston Art College and the Royal Academy Schools, London. Throughout my art practice, I ensure several creative strands - painting - making and inventing and teaching. I enjoy sharing ideas and developing them through painting, building creative playground installations, writing books on painting and running classes.
