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
A week in Wales was the first successful attempt at working away from home
“The Swing” Acrylic on canvas painting. 106.6×106.6cm or 42″x42″. Unframed. This painting is rather mysterious. My girls were very young then and we used to spend a lot of time at the playground whenever the day turned out nice. I also used to photograph them a lot more than they let me do now. On […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
