Paintings With Soul

  Canopy view her on my website Canopy, 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 . Winter hasn’t even officially begun here in Michigan, and I am already pining for the whisper of foliage. My lungs just don’t fill the same way in the colder months (prolly because taking a deep breath outside would freeze me to the core!). There’s something about being in the woods, feet buried in the soft mouldering ground, listening to the leaves, squirrels and birds gossip, while veils of green filter the light. The squirrels still have much to say and the birds are pretty succinct these days, but I miss the even keeled advice of the leaves. So this painting was an invitation to imagine myself on some of my favorite pathways in some of my favorite green spaces getting some well grounded advice and dirt on the chipmunks. Hang Canopy on your walls, and you get to wander the same trails wit...

  The Mother Tree, acrylic on handmade cradled panel, 24"x30"x1-1/2, $2000 plus s&h   to the first asking nicely . Questions can always come  to me. She's her own ecosystem, keeping all in balance. She also holds the seasons and wisdom of all time. She is the sky, the land, the air we breathe, with a true firey spirit. All of the elements.  This is a special painting in that she includes many of the approaches and techniques I love the most along with some new to me bits, like thicker paint application and that little inset of spring in the lower left. This Mother will be an absolutely stunning anchor in whatever space she is installed, guaranteed. You can see her in greater detail  here ,  view her up close and in a room setting, and find a link to purchase.  Let me know if you would like a payment plan (30% non refundable deposit with the balance plus s&h paid off within a year) - those are set up on an individual basis and not processed thro...

  "Heartpine," 15"x30"x1-1/2", acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, from the "Forest for the Trees" series. She carries   a yellow feather painted on the right side edge , a symbol of hope, which matches the yellow heart glow on the face of the canvas. She is $1500 plus s&h. This piece, along with some sister fox-trees, will be available in the near future. However, if you simply cannot wait to make her yours (and I completely get it!),  let me know . We will work something out. And thanks so much for your interest in my artwork.     (Pictured above, Sacred and Crabapple, shared with you earlier this week) I mentioned earlier that I have many of these "Forest for the Trees" pieces going on at the moment. They take deliberate, slow marks, with plenty of drying time in between. This is a little contrary to my usual pace, which is much like an excited toddlers "more, more, more!" yet I am enjoying the quieter process immensely. The ...

  "Crabapple," 16"x20", acrylic on panel, part of a new series I am considering calling "Forest for the Trees." Please  reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. Continuing to step into the open door that   "Sacred,"   yesterday's painting opened, this is "Crabapple." There is something fascinating to me here - it's a tree, yes, but it's also a fox. It's both things simultaneously. As I work on these paintings (there's a mess of them coming to life in the studio), I shift the balance back and forth to allow one, then the other, to shine the brightest. It's a delightful game to play, walking this line between the dichotomy (is this the right word?) of the subject matter. How far can I push the tree as subject before the fox dissolves, and vice versa.  There is a calm serenity to these paintings, too, that I greatly need. I find I have retreated from much of the noise in the...

  Kimberly Kelly Santini   artist, instructor, daydreamer "Reach for the Sky," 24"x30", acrylic on flat panel. This painting, along with a collection of sister trees, will be available for purchase at a future date. In the meanwhile please  reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. It's been a wonderful few days. We skipped town for a little spring break that was packed with adventures of the best sort. I came back to the studio full of ideas and enthusiasm for new works - I feel like I can now see the forest for the trees!! If you are interested in learning the back story on how they came to my easel, along with the conceptual work I am doing as I explore this subject matter, tune in to the zoom session I'm having with my online students next week (Wednesday at noon eastern). I'll share my personal history with trees, some recent ah-ha moments, show how this work is rooted in my painting philosophy (The Creativ...