Paintings With Soul

  "Sacred," 18"x24", acrylic on panel with a large helping of mystery and magic. Please  reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. I have been in a deep painting groove for about 7 straight hours. This hasn't happened in a bit, but I can tell you that today has felt like a fantastic therapy session. And I'm just as excited to get back to things tomorrow after meeting with my private students (did you know I mentor via zoom?   shoot me an email   if this is something you are interested in). I consider this to be a breakthrough painting for me - and she's opened the gates to more thrilling and potent pieces. I'm having a great time figuring things out with this weaving of tree and animal spirits. On Saturday I'll be demoing my process, also online, with my Real Time students. The session will be recorded and streamable for those unable to make it. $25 will get you a virtual front row seat at my easel.   Lear...

  The first of my new Tree Spirits paintings will be available for purchase Tuesday, April 19th, at noon eastern via my website. Please  reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. On April 19th at noon eastern, you will find the listing for the new tree paintings on my website, inside my portfolio under "Available."   Here is a direct link to that page   - just remember that the paintings won't show up as available until the scheduled time.     If you would like to see detailed images of the paintings prior to the sales' start, please use the links below: Reach for the Sky The Red Dress Petticoat Evergreen Bewitched Merlot  (no, she's not included in the image above, but she is part of the sale - click to see how special she is!) At the specified time, the paintings will be added to those on my  "Available Paintings" page , with an "Add to Cart" button (interested...

  From left, "Bewitched," and "Merlot," both 16"x20", acrylic mixed media on flat panel. These two, along with a handful of sister trees, will be available for purchase Tuesday, April 19th. In the meanwhile please  reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. I am busy curating your choices for the studio sale on Tuesday, and having a great time partnering pieces together and discovering new things about them in the process.  I am working on providing a variety of sizes and price points so there will be something for everyone. How does the sale work? Pretty simply. On April 18th at noon eastern, you will find the listing for the new tree paintings on my website, inside my portfolio under "Available."   Here is a direct link to that page   - just remember that the paintings won't show up as available until the scheduled time. These two pictured will be accompanied by   Reach for the Sky , ...

  "Evergreen," 16"x20", acrylic mixed media on flat panel. This painting, along with a collection of sister trees, will be available for purchase next Tuesday, April 19th. In the meanwhile please   reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. Did you see   the studio shot   I posted to FB earlier today? There are so many trees - I counted 15 paintings in this photo, and that is just one wall/end! They each spend a bit of time on my easel, then get set aside to dry before getting their next layer of marks. Also, if a tree (painting) falls in the forest (aka the basement studio) - because daVinci knocks it over while hunting invisible things - and nobody is around (meaning I am upstairs), I can definitively say that yes, one hears it and one is also scared half to death. Thanks for taking the time to look at my work, With peace, Kim

  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...

  Reach out   with any questions or   purchase directly off my website   and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. I was going to offer Embrace today, being that I felt our world could use a hug. Then I decided to just go for gold, and added Red Pine (featuring a fox) and Elder (with an equine tucked into her trunk) to the offerings. It's a legit painting sale on April 1st. I kid you not. Direct links to purchase: Embrace Red Pine Elder Thank you so much for your warm support of my artwork. With peace and a bear hug (there's   a bear painting available   too!!), Kim

  "Pride," 24"x48", acrylic on flat panel. This painting may be offered at a future date with a collection of similar pieces.  Reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. I have become an arborist, in paint at least. In the last week, at least 10 of these trees paintings have sprouted and come to life. I am giving them space to evolve and trying to stay out of the way.  These trees have rich, complicated lives. They have been shaped by their circumstances, and are unapologetic about where they stand. They assiduously record our histories while bridging the ground we are collectively rooted in with the heavens, our symbol for eternal life. I feel, too, as though they are emblematic of what we do to each other and our world. They bear witness. Stay tuned - in the coming week or so I will put together a slideshow of the tree paintings to date. I think you will enjoy seeing them collectively. Thanks for...

  "Elder," 15"x30", acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, with the image painted around the sides, so no need to frame. This painting may be offered at a future date with a small collection of similar pieces.  Reach out   with any questions and thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. I have always been enamored with sky holes. You know, the little peeks of light that break into a tree's shape? Well after the last few paintings where I totally and completely lost myself in the making of the trees, I began to wonder if my love for sky holes was actually a love for the trees, the shapes that embraced and made the sky holes. The tree has to convincingly play supporting actor in order for those sky holes to shine. Thanks for taking the time to look at my work, With peace, Kim