Paintings With Soul

  Due to Blogger allowing Ai scraping/training, I will no longer be posting the back stories of my work here. This information is available through Substack and Patreon , both platforms that respect creator content and intellectual property by blocking Ai. Thank you for your interest in my art, Warmly, Kimberly Santini www.KimberlySantini.com

check her out, make her yours Profusion 2.0 (the first Profusion got a glow up), 20x20, acrylic, pure imagination and Mother Nature on cradled panel, $1900, available through my website. Profusion 2.0 will arrive wired and ready to hang. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. I’ve had the Bear+Mask paintings hanging together in the studio. This is a wonderful way to see passages with fresh eyes and allow the collection of work to inform other decisions. It’s also a great way to identify subtle shifts (or some not so subtle ones!) to consider as the pieces talk to each other. After a little time, Profusion (the first one) felt a bit like two different paintings competing for attention. I began thinking about how to resolve this - which of the two different parts was the most exciting to me? and then how do I to bring the other passage in cohesively..... This led to a demanding series of revisions - going slowl...

Profusion check her out, make her yours Profusion, 20x20, acrylic on cradled panel (no need to frame, painting will arrive wired and ready to hang), $1900, available exclusively through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. This was a challenging painting week - as the complexity of these masked bears grows, so too does the difficulty level. I am literally learning on my feet as the pieces progress. Which frankly is one of my favorite ways to learn - by doing! Profusion hit a point where I thought she had further to go, but my critique group (yesterday) declared her finished. I weighed the possibility of stopping,** but ultimately it felt like I was copping out. So this morning I deepened her value relationships, added a passage of smaller marks, pulled one of the flowers forward and allowed the barely suggested eye to disappear. I am so pleased to have taken these risks - the painting is all the...

  Disappear   Pictured above, Disappear, 16"x16", acrylic on a 7/8" cradled wood panel, no pressing need to frame, $1100 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. Clicking on the image  or here  will teleport over to my website to view the painting in a room setting, zoom in up close to the image, and even make her all yours. This piece is available to ship at the end of August 2025. Questions? just  reach out .   This painting is another demo, or trial run per se, of the exercises I've assembled for my next  in person workshop.  The results I am getting from these trial runs are so exciting - and I am all the more pumped to get to share them with students. This one was also influenced by childhood memories of my own hidey spots and playing hide and seek, too, with my kids. Little toes peeking out from under lumpy blankets and giggles coming from inside closets. Those were some good times. Thanks so much...

  Weeping Roses view her on my website Weeping Roses, original acrylic on flat panel, 18”x24”, $1000 plus s&h. I welcome your questions (yes, I offer payment plans - details below). Just  reach out . There is the hardest working little rose bush in my garden. She is scrawny but boy is she extra. The little faces of her blooms cluster together in profusion, all kissed with sunshine and whispering together with delight. They always make me smile. Spending time in the garden is such a mood enhancer.  I sure could use some dirt under my nails and a barefoot walk through the grass about now. But I heard the groundhog saw his shadow, so I’ll have to wait a bit. You can get a good look at Weeping Roses over  on my website . You’ll find links there to zoom in close to her surface or view in a room setting. Purchasing can’t get any easier - add her to your cart and boom, she’s all yours! Let me know  if you would like a payment plan (30% non refundable deposit with t...

  Indigo view her on my website Indigo, 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 . This painting is a rework. I was in love with the prior version,  Indigo Apricot , at the time I created her, and she’s been hanging in the studio ever since. The last couple weeks, though, I began to see things differently. I itched to go back into the painting and make some changes. In artist speak this is called “seeing with fresh eyes.” Fresh eyes are an important tool in that they help the artist critically view a work of art and design adjustments as it progresses. Ironically, fresh eyes are tough to maintain when one is in the thick of creating said work. At the time I painted  Indigo Apricot  I was focused on other ideas specific to a proposal I was writing and seemingly forgot some basics (like varied edgework and an interesting value pattern).  I am infinitely p...

  Night, acrylic on cradled panel, sides painted so no need to frame, 18"x24", $1400 plus s&h   to the first asking nicely . Questions can always come  to me. Meet Night, the horse who has literally been in my dreams regularly the last six months. She is there, right at my side, physically or energetically, most nights (maybe she’s there every single one but I simply don’t remember). I am a lucid dreamer with consistent nightmares. When things get rough in there, I reach for her. There is a growing warmth across the palm of my hand and she is suddenly right there, and busts me through a sort of membrane into another dream sequence. This was an emotionally challenging piece to do, rather like an exhausting therapy session. I can’t believe that she’s actually here in my waking hours. Thank you, sweet girl, for showing up for me in my dreams and in the studio. You can see Night in greater detail  here ,  view her up close and in a room setting, and find a link ...

At left, "Rosa Multiflora 1," at right, "Rosa Multiflora 2," each 6" x 6" x nearly 1", acrylics on cradled wood panel, image painted around edges, $174 each plus s&h. $100 from the purchase of each painting will be donated to #BlackLivesMatter. I accept paypal, venmo, personal checks and payment plans. Inquiries may always come   to me . I have been at a loss this last week, struggling to comprehend the divide that's growing in my country, and what I see Americans doing to each other. I created #journalthroughit lessons directed specifically to   mindfulness   and   creating space to usher in and express our emotions . I'm also planning to attend a peaceful BLM rally, but keeping an eye on threats of armed gunman attending in opposition. And, of course, listening and learning. It just doesn't feel like enough, though. Last night, on a rare late evening alone in the studio, I set my commission aside, as my heart wasn't in it. I n...

"Remembered," 11x14, acrylics and graphite on stonehenge cotton paper, $399 plus s&h. I accept Paypal, venmo, personal checks and payment plans. Purchase inquiries can always come   to me . This painting is a Celebration of Life in the midst of a pandemic; remembering our world (and rituals) while separated from core practices that connected us to each other. Thanks for following along with my painting journey, Kim

"Hedgerow," 18x24x1", cradeled wood panel, acrylics and graphite, $849 plus s&h. I accept paypal, venmo, personal checks and payment plans. Inquiries may always come  to me . This one has evolved all week, with various rabbits coming and going over the course of each painting session. I shared a number of images on   my Facebook page , and will be doing a more thorough explanation of my process in   my Patreon online classroom . But meanwhile, I'm going to sit and look at this painting, with her cloud bunny, and pretend it's not 300 degrees below zero outside today. Thanks, as always, for following along with my artwork journey, Warmly, Kim

"David+Austin," 36" x 48", acrylics on a flat panel,   message me   for purchase details. Returning collectors receive 10% off. I accept paypel, venmo and payment plans. Inquiries on this painting and any others are always welcome, and may come  to me . I think it's silly how Valentines Day has become this be all end of of demonstrating romantic love. Why can we celebrate love all the time? Every single type of love, every single day? Thanks, as always, for following along with my artwork journey, Warmly, Kim

David+Austin, 36" x 48", acrylics on panel, $3925 with free shipping, available through   UGallery .  It's Derby Week!! In the past, as the days before The Kentucky Derby approached, I would busy myself with daily paintings of race horses and equines. However, in 2015, my Derby Week experience was the penultimate dream - I spent it in Louisville, being feted as the Official Artist of the Kentucky Derby. The entire year was a marvelous opportunity, from the out-of-the-blue phone call offering me the project, to months of research and painting surreptitiously, to the reveal party at Churchill the November prior, then a presentation at the Kentucky Derby Museum during their birthday gala in April, and finally experiencing Derby Week first hand as a special guest. I will always be grateful to the powers that be for delivering the best project at the best moment in my life - Clare and Pat, you have special spots in my heart. Here's the link to a photo essay of my j...