Kim Amell is a self-taught contemporary encaustic & oil painter based in Banner Elk, NC. She began her artistic career painting murals, custom art and designing interiors for her clients. The need to create an object with her hands has always followed her throughout her life. Her most recent body of work has been exploring the the allure of nature and the power and strength it holds in the world. Kim finds her art inspiration in the textures that nature offers; a worn old piece of wood, the strength of moving water or the way the sun hits the landscape. Kim is moved to create ethereal works that evoke a sense of mystic and wonder that you are drawn into.
“I believe my paintings are a direct emotional response to what I see and experience in nature. My process starts with an image of a place I have visited or experienced while focusing on the feeling I want to create and convey in the piece. When I am totally involved in the process of creating it is easy to get lost in thought, which allows me to feel a connection with calmness and peace. This connection is what I strive to convey in my work. The process of working with encaustics is meditative, yet very physical. Blending and heating of beeswax, resin, shellac and oil paints to create textural surfaces with a waxy depth. Surfaces are heated with a blow torch to create my ethereal and atmospheric work.”
Kim works out of her studio in Banner Elk, NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Statement
I believe my paintings are a direct emotional response to what I see and experience in nature. My process starts with an image of a place I have visited or experienced while focusing on the feeling I want to create and convey in the piece. When I am totally involved in the process of creating it is easy to get lost in thought which allows me to feel a connection with calmness and peace. This connection is what I strive to convey in my work. The process of working with encaustics is meditative yet very physical. Blending and heating of beeswax, resin, shellac and oil paints to create textural surfaces with a waxy depth. Surfaces are heated with a blow torch to create my ethereal and atmospheric work.
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