Paintings With Soul

check her out, make her yours Thunderclap, 30x24, acrylic, pure imagination and Mother Nature on panel, $1700, available through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Southeastern Michigan was pummeled with violent storms last week. So of course, I had to paint them. This fox was already on the easel, and I was trying to resolve her ho-hum background when the idea of threading it with storm clouds bubbled up as the studio lights flickered and tornado sirens sounded - how convenient that I have a basement studio! After placing those, I then decided she needed to be illuminated by that first shaft of sunlight that bursts through after the storm. This painting turned into quite the metaphor. And not to make light of the storms - as of Friday there were roughly 250,000 businesses and homes without power in the state right now. Many thanks to the crews working through the weekend to restore services. Th...

check her out, she can be all yours 18”x24”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel, $1900 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Hellebore can ship at the end of May 2026. This little fox started over a month ago with   a very simple drawing   derived from two other paintings of mine. I had no idea where she was going, just that I wanted a focus on basic value shapes and a young silhouette. Finished yesterday, she was inspired by violets and her namesake, both growing voraciously in my garden despite the mixed weather here in the midwest. I looked it up after signing her - I did not know that hellebore is in the buttercup family and highly toxic (don’t worry - it’s planted in a section of the yard our dogs have no access to). I had no idea it represented calamity - but also, because it blooms in snow, it also represents hope. Here I was thinking I wanted to fill Fox with hellebore b...

check her out, make her yours 12x12, acrylic on panel, private collection (thank you so much).   I don’t often take on commissions, but this one ticked all the boxes for me. Also, I told my collectors that I was approaching their concept of Fox in the woodland like a gentle suggestion as opposed to a static list of bullet points that, for me, can stifle the joy of the painting process. After over a decade of nearly daily pet portraiture, I got a burned out on painting for others and guess I still am a bit tender. Nevertheless, Service Berry showed up as Fox Kit, initially dancing in a wreath of oak leaves collected from the back yard, before settling into her painted space. I made a reel of her progression and shared it to   my instagram . Available work is always listed on my website - I have   acrylic paintings , oil paintings ( animal centric   and   sky and floral ) and   smaller works on paper. I am so grateful for your interest in my art. Thank you so...

check her out 16x20, acrylic on flat panel, private collection (thank you to my returning collector who purchased Ammonite through my First Dibs Club - this is a preferred mailing list for parties wanting a heads up on acquisitions - you can join yourself   here   - scroll down to the “Become a Dibber” form) At the beginning of March, My Better Half and I escaped the bitter cold of Michigan, crossing three things off our bucket list. One, a vacation with my brother and sister in law (it will be the first of many). Two, visiting Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo’s home (it was sacred ground). And three, exploring ancient ruins in Tulum, Mexico (where I saw one of the temples of Ixchel, the Moon-Rabbit-Goddess). An unexpected treat was discovering the Mesoamerican Coral Reef, second in size to the Great Barrier Reef. I carry crystals and little stones in my pockets, so to walk the beach and see all these little shells, bits of coral, tidal pools filled with tiny fish, algae covered stones ...

  24"x30", acrylic on flat panel, $1700* to the first asking nicely. View her in a room setting, get your nose right up into her business, or make her your own right   here . Propellant is available to ship mid February. Payment plans on request - 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with 6 months to pay off balance plus s&h. Returning collectors - don't forget to use "COLLECTOR10" discount at checkout for 10% off acquisitions. Questions can always come   my way . make her yours Propellant was birthed at the end of January, in response to the murders of Renee Good, Alex Pretti and others in ICE custody along with the kidnapping and detainment of children (I am not green lighting a political debate, I am merely sharing the origin of this painting). The challenge was this - how could I create a painting that spoke to the whiplash of rage and despondence I saw fellow humans experiencing? Fox stepped up for that role. She came to me in my dreams, qu...

16”x20”, acrylic on flat panel, $1150* to the first asking nicely. View her in a room setting, get your nose right up into her business, or make her your own right   here . Vulpine is available to ship mid February. Payment plans available on request - 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with 6 months to pay off the balance plus s&h. Returning collectors - don’t forget to use “COLLECTOR10” discount at checkout for 10% off acquisitions. Questions can always come   my way . make her yours Vulpine is my first completed painting after returning home from a masterclass with   British painter Emily Ball   and 13 other incredible artists. I learned an extraordinary amount while there about how to amplify intentions and deepen the resonance of my art. I then spent the last week reflecting on the experience while building an action plan to keep me on track exploring the things unearthed with Emily.** All the work was worth it, just to see this painting come ...

24”x30”, acrylic on panel, $1300 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. View her in a room setting, get your nose right up into her business, or make her your own right   here . Grit is available to ship late December. Payment plans available on request - 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with 12 months to pay off balance plus shipping and handling. Questions can always come   my way . make her yours This year is one for the books, that’s for sure. There’s a couple of words I could sum it up with, “grit” being one of them. I’ve infused Grit with marks, symbols, intentional color choices and other bits that tell the story of my 2025. I reckon there’s quite a few of you who will relate to this narrative yourselves. I had hoped to enter Grit in an exhibition, meaning she wouldn’t be for sale until the spring. But she wasn’t finished in time. Which I am interpreting as meaning someone out there - maybe it’s you? - need her more so than the venue or event might ha...

  24”x20”, acrylic on cradled panel (sides painted so no pressing need to frame), $1500 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. Click on the image or   here   to be transported to my website where you can view the painting in a room setting, zoom in up close to the image, and perhaps even make her all yours. Available to ship late November 2025. Questions? just   reach out . Eutierria means being one with nature. It seemed the perfect title for a fox melting into a moon studded midnight sky, as the northern lights danced behind her (who was awed by them earlier this week?, framed by foggy deciduous trees and evergreens. Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork, Love you, Kim. PS Returning collectors of original art use “COLLECTOR10” at checkout for your repeat offender discount. If you would like a payment plan, reach out directly. A 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with balance due inside 12 months. The painting ships once all payments are co...