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. […]
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?
And sometimes I simply want to throw paint thickly onto a surface and see how it looks. Why not? And play with the colours. And with the shadows and the light. And not to think. And not to care about the objects of my attention but use them as an excuse to throw paint onto […]
This small etching is based on one of the street sketches I used to do, sitting in the window of my shop. Lots of people pass by our window all day long, with their dogs, kids, bags, zimmer-frames… One must be really focused to be able to catch the essence of the image – a […]
So, digging myself out of an artist’s “block” is a full time job. I seem to be doing that more often than doing the actual art. I find, it helps to get to simple objects and a format and material I know. At least, it takes away a lot of decision-making… The simpler – the […]
Artworks from Central Asian artists hailing from nations that were formerly Soviet republics, including Kazahkstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, are on display in an inaugural event launching the new space of Fondazione 107, in Turin, Italy.
I’ve just finished two new paintings, which I started ages ago. It was a very long process, as I was trying to find a new language. All my search for the last 15 or so months is somewhere there, in these pictures. And I am looking forward to see what’s coming next…
I came across this description of giclee as Original Art Print yet again and it made me really cross, because this is a pile of nonsense! Giclee isn’t, never was and never will be an original art, the same way as if Picasso made a doodle on the paper and faxed the image to you, […]
Vast majority of the contemporary art pieces are all about technicalities of making art. The most used word in the artist’s statements is “fascinated”. Artists keep being fascinated by aspects of this and that. With the diversity of the materials and techniques available at the moment, it is probably necessary to have lots of people […]
