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Aura

 

Aura, 40"x40" original painting, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, $4500 plus s&h. This painting will ship rolled and require restretching at your end.  Please reach out with any questions.


I have been putting in long studio days since March, when I accepted an invitation from Mirada Fine Art to hang a two person show at their gallery in downtown Denver (Colorado). This was an ambitious undertaking in that it involved delivering a dozen new, large scale paintings inside 4 months.

The pace has been both grueling and inspiring. Each piece spawned excitement in me to try something new. There was no time to overthink or second guess myself. I leaned into my intuition and fully embraced colliding my wildlife spirits with the sky and planets, all sparked by April's eclipse and the northern lights which I was able to witness right in my own backyard.

I thought of the animals as containers, source, veils, precipices, apparitions, constellations, memories, creators, guardians. The work steamrolled and gathered strength with each new canvas. I am so excited to reveal it to you - to Denver - in July (more info coming, but mark your calendars for July 27th, 4-6, for an opening reception at the gallery).

Now that the show inventory has been decided, the pieces completed, and varnishing begun, I am continuing to sling paint. I can't just do a hard stop - there's so many ideas I have unearthed, and I want to take advantage of the momentum I have gathered.

Which leads me to this lovely, Aura, a story of energy, of possibility, a visualization of The Butterfly Effect (on a personal note, how satisfying would it be to see one small action on our part cause a ripple of change across the world?). Yeah, this painting showed up just when we needed her.

You can visit Aura in a room setting and see her surface up close over on my website. There also is a button to purchase and make her yours, if you are so inclined.

Reach out to coordinate a payment plan - a 30% deposit reserves her, and you have a year to pay off the balance due plus ship costs. Also, returning collectors of original art receive 10% off their purchase - use "COLLECTOR10" upon checkout.

Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork,
All my best, warmly, Kim

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