STUDIO SALE Monday January 31st at noon eastern

Clockwise from top left, "Sky," 24"x36"x2", acrylic mixed media on cradled wood panel, $2000 plus s&h; "Rabbit, Rabbit," 36"x36"x2", acrylic mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, $2400 plus s&h; "Surrender," 24"x24"x2", acrylic mixed media on cradled wood panel, $1600 plus s&h; "Oscillate," 24"x18", acrylic mixed media on flat panel, $1000. These pieces will be available for purchase at noon eastern January 31, 2022, via the Available Paintings page on my website. Please read further for details.

It's been wonderfully crazy the last 10 months or so, as eager collectors have been buying my work, often while it remained unfinished. While I do truly love that the paintings were/are resonating so deeply, I also realized that I needed to institute some changes in how I offered them for sale. Selling immediately wasn't serving my newly discovered desire to savor what the pieces were meant to teach me, and it also prevented them from having conversations with each other here in the studio, inspiring and furthering my work even more.

So I began to think about offering collections of "sister" paintings together - choosing a day and time where a small collection of new work will become available, and sharing that with you, my wonderful supportive fans and collectors, a little bit in advance. (The best way to be informed of these sales is to be - and stay - subscribed to my newsletter. And to read them in a timely fashion, too, I suppose! )

So are you ready? Mark your calendars because the first ever Santini Studio Sale is next week!!

This small collection of new original paintings will be available to purchase directly off my website Monday, January 31st, at noon eastern time.

How will it work? Well, at noon eastern, the paintings pictured will be added to those on my "Available Paintings" page, with an "Add to Cart" button (interested buyers will click on the image of the painting they wish, and on the subsequent page choose the "Add to Cart" button). The paintings will sit there until a collector completes the sale (once the sale has been completed, the "Add to Cart" button is no longer available). First come, first serve.

You will not see the new paintings on the page until noon on Monday. However, I will say that there currently is a wonderful collection of available work there at the moment, and I would be happy to combine shipping with anything currently available and a Monday purchase.

I've never offered my work for sale before in this manner, and I truly do not know what to expect - whether or not the paintings will find immediate homes. But, as my grandmother would say, I am looking forth to it.

INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS: My website does not have a means for me to correctly charge international ship costs. For international shipments, I fully expect there will be additional fees beyond what the system calculates at the time of sale. My current plan is to address this surplus cost via a separate invoice after the paintings' sale and we have a final weight for the parcel. I am happy to discuss this with you at any time.

Thanks, as always, for following along with me and my artwork.

See you Monday!!

Be well,
Fondly, Kim

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