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 24”x36”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 1-1/2” profile (no pressing need to frame), $3000 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Cumulonimbus can ship at the end of April 2026. I signed two paintings on Friday, which is uncommon, but also a bit overdue as I’ve not finished anything (other than Mona’s posthumous portrait) in a couple of weeks. I’m still painting daily - even Tuesday after the studio flooded, although it wasn’t for long. Painting is one of the few ways I escape all the noise of The Real World, and I’m finding my daily studio routine to be a life saver anymore. There is always an element of current events in my work, although it’s not super obvious. In this one it is the feel of a roiling storm building. The pixellated edges are my way of saying how unreal current situations feel (I actually quite like this effect and will be leaning in...

check her out, make her yours 24”x30”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 1-1/2” profile (no pressing need to frame), $2250 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Snowcapped can ship at the end of April 2026. I tried a number of new things with this one: restricting my palette to four blues, one red and two yellows working with large value shapes, feeling my way into Bear’s pose and weight distribution use of glazes to unify and soften passages You can see her progression   here . I learned quite a bit and am eager to roll it into another piece. Stay tuned. The link above will take you to my website for direct purchasing, along with viewing in a room or right up close. Payment plans are also available - see below for terms. I am so grateful for your interest in my work Thank you so much for your support. Big Mountain Bear Love, Kim. PS Payment plans on request for purchases great...

check her out, make her yours 24”x36”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 1-1/2” profile (no pressing need to frame), $3000 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Painting will arrive ready to hang. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Heliocentric can ship mid April 2026. Heliocentric is named for Copernicus’ cosmological theory, as this Bear believes herself to be the center of the universe. My initial concept was a   girl-with-pearl-earring   sort of Bear, filled with flowers. I added sunflowers, and they were super fun but also very demanding - their faces competed with Bear. She asked for the petals to become little licks of flame, and things grew from there. Heliocentric was   worked with permission**   from a photo taken by wildlife photographer Allie Swafford. Thank you, Allie, for allowing me to paint Felicia’s coquettish gaze (Grizzly Bear 863 from Yellowstone). Allie offers prints of her am...

check her out, make her yours 24”x20”, acrylic on a cradled wood panel with 1-1/2” profile (no pressing need to frame), $2400 to the first asking nicely, includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Painting will arrive ready to hang. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Cloud Spotting can ship in early April 2026. The last time I played cloud spotting I saw a giant T Rex walking the horizon line. She was headed to the mall. True story. The button above will take you to my website for direct purchasing, along with viewing in a room or right up close. Payment plans are also available - see below for terms. I am so grateful for your interest in my work Thank you so much for your support. Blue Sky Love, Kim. PS Payment plans on request for purchases greater than $500 - 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with 6 months to pay off balance plus any s&h (my current pieces include s&h - paintings done prior to 2026 are at my old prices and s...

check her out, make her yours 24x36, acrylic on gallery wrapped panel with 1” profile, sides painted so no need to frame, $3000 to the first asking nicely. This includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Revolution can ship as early as April 2026. In the book   Art as Therapy , Alain de Botton and John Armstrong propose that what we are stimulated by in art is a reflection of what we are lacking or longing for. So if I am making art filled with landscapes and skies alongside ethereal animals that see me but don’t require anything from me, what might that mean? I may be wishing for a protector. Nothing is more omnipotent than   a mother bear blocking the sun (or moon) . Or a savior -   a silvery mare pregnant with prayer . Or stillness as I sit beside   a marigold filled fox in the garden . If you wish for any of these things, too, you’re in luck. The art continues to show up. Available work is list...

16”x20”, acrylic on flat panel, $1150* to the first asking nicely. View her in a room setting, get your nose right up into her business, or make her your own right   here.   She will ship late February. Payment plans on request - 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with 6 months to pay off balance plus s&h. Returning collectors - don’t forget to use “COLLECTOR10” discount at checkout for 10% off acquisitions. Questions can always come   my way . make her yours Waltzing into the weekend drizzled with light and hope (pink is always hope in my paintings), circled by fairies leaving trails of magic or planets glowing with peace and love or however you wish to interpret the constellation of sparks around Bear’s head - it’s a choose your own adventure sort of painting. Onward is a breathtaking, uplifting piece.   Make her yours here. Thank you so much for your interest in and support of my artwork. Big love, Kim *Price includes s&h for domestic addres...

  24”x20”, acrylic on cradled panel with a 1” profile, $1900* to the first asking nicely. View her in a room setting, get your nose right up into her business, or make her your own right   here . Unfathomable is available to ship mid February. Payment plans available on request - 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with 6 months to pay off the balance plus s&h. Returning collectors - don’t forget to use your “COLLECTOR10” discount at checkout for 10% off acquisitions. Questions can always come   my way . make her yours I’ve had a couple rough days at the easel. It happens to everyone. We can’t be on our A game every single day. But we can continue to show up regardless. And be kind to ourselves, because showing up is what matters - the work will find a way to get completed, eventually. I bit off a bit more than I could chew, trying to paint something entirely new conceptually. I was chasing a What If that I couldn’t quite articulate, nor did I have a cle...