Paintings With Soul

  Due to Blogger allowing Ai scraping/training, I am not 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

  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

  Kimberly Santini joins A Year of Wild Nature 2027 Online Course - and free Taster Sessions Kimberly Santini Sep 22, 2026   View in app My friend Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts has invited me several times to be a part of her year long courses - and I was finally able to say yes!! I am so excited to share that I am an instructor in Tam’s 2027 course A Year of Wild Nature . A Year of Wild Nature is a year-long, immersive mixed media art course designed to creatively explore nature and wildness in both literal and symbolic ways. Through paint, texture, colour, mark-making and imagination, students are invited to explore the natural world as well as their own inner wild nature. This course is hosted by Tam and over 30 others (like me). We’ll explore forests, flowers, animals, seasons, skies, rivers, roots, wild gardens, earthy textures and the deeper themes of freedom, instinct, expression, belonging and creative liberation. All lessons are themed around the concept of Wild Natu...

  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

  Come Paint with me outside Boston Kimberly Santini Sep 15, 2026   View in app Want to step away from reliance on reference photos and build compositions from instinct? Learn to let your subject lead the way toward a piece uniquely your own, leaning into improvisation and intuition while integrating line, shape and color? Then join me at Slow River Studio (outside Boston) October 25-27, where I’ll be teaching my unique painting approach weaving representation with gesture, memory, imagination and color.  Three full days of instruction include live painting, a peek at my sketchbooks/journals, slideshows and prerecorded content (some of which to be watched outside the classroom - yup, there will be homework). The course will include group presentations, lots of personalized feedback and, of course, meeting/connecting with fellow painters. I’m also packing a small stack of original paintings as supplemental examples of brushwork, color usage, and line vs shape considerations. It...

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...