About the Artist
Hi! I'm Kim, and now that I am in my 50s, I'm finally doing what my younger self always promised she would -- devote time to painting and create a career centred around my art.
After a journey that took me across Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest, I found myself back in Saskatchewan. Sixteen years later, with a marketing career built here and a lifetime of seeing these landscapes, I'm picking up the brush to tell the stories I see every day.
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From snow-covered prairie roads to weathered barns standing proud against brilliant skies, I paint the moments most people drive past. These landscapes, rendered in oils and acrylics, are love letters to the quiet beauty of rural Canada that shaped me.
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They say Gen X is the forgotten generation, but we're the ones who never stopped dreaming - we just took the scenic route to get there.
My Story
Growing up in small-town Saskatchewan, my journey has been anything but linear. As a child, I was captivated by art—painting and drawing were my first loves, and I dreamed of a career in fashion merchandising. However, my guidance counselor had other ideas, steering me toward business school at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Commerce.
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After graduating in '94, I took whatever jobs I could find—first at Future Shop, then in high-end menswear where, ironically, I got my first taste of fashion merchandising through creating displays. Throughout these early career steps, art never released its hold on me. I had snuck in a drawing class during my commerce degree, but it was an evening class with artist Linda Duvall that truly rekindled my passion.
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This led to a bold decision: returning to school for a Bachelor of Fine Arts. When exhibition anxiety prompted another pivot, I embraced Art History, graduating magna cum laude from the University of Saskatchewan in 1999, with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History.
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My journey continued with adventures across Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Life's perfect irony eventually brought my daughter and me back to my hometown—the very place I'd sworn I'd never live again. Here, I remarried, had another daughter, and found my way into marketing, where my business background, art history education, and travels all converge.
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In 2019, at age 47, I finally exhibited my artwork. My piece "The Road to Willowbrook," which serves as the background for the main page, and seen here, is a winter highway scene that captures the extraordinary in the ordinary. This piece proved to me that it's never too late to pursue your dreams.
