Professional portrait artist and painter-printmaker Marina Kim. Commission fine art, buy original artworks online
Epistolary Still Life. Nostalgic? Maybe. Who writes proper letters these days? Would I write one? Meh… Painting space and light – that’s a dimension. Painting a story – that’s a dimension. Painting so that the process of painting is discernible – that’s yet another dimension, the dimension of time. I want it all and now. […]
July Garden Posy – the title is lazy. The subject is familiar. Logistically, it is easy to wander out into the garden and pick what’s available to pose in front of me and paint. Simple logistics saves TIME to get to the POINT of the exercise. The point is to play around with little colour […]
Autumn roses. Oil on canvas painting of the last roses of the season. Painted in November 2025
Stick drawing of Rye. How do I make it good? How do I make it a print?
collection of works by Georges de la Tour, complemented by paintings of other contemporary artists working in the same style, by works of artists replicating his style, and the works that came from the atelier of the artist.
The task of tidying up some ancient posts from my old blog turned out to be a shameful trip down memory lane. Shameful because I praise myself on being free from such nonsense as nostalgia. Yet I succumbed. I quite enjoyed the quality of my writing in Russian (AND English!) – free and funny. I […]
A week in Wales was the first successful attempt at working away from home
This chapter is about a day when my questions and the Universe’s answers flow in a seamless conversation. Today starts with meditation. I want to organise my activities, or rather to define what I want to achieve, or rather to divine how to go about the day, or simply to relax and let the body […]
This short story sprung out of two portrait sketches made in a Paris quarter last night.
Recently, I bought a few books on the Dutch Golden Age, some focusing on the historical overview and some on the art of the period. I recall that during my time at art college, studying art history (albeit superficially), I was struck by the unique
