Kimberly Birrell

I am an abstract artist drawn to the place where beauty and strangeness meet.

I build paintings through layers of acrylic and mixed media, allowing organic forms, scraped surfaces, unexpected marks, and fragments of color to emerge and interact. I am interested in tension - between control and accident, quiet and movement, harmony and disruption.

I rarely begin with a fixed destination. I respond to what appears, keeping what feels alive and changing what becomes too predictable. I want a painting to remain slightly unresolved; beautiful enough to invite you in, strange enough to make you stay.

My work is ultimately about discovery - finding something that I could not have planned, but recognize when I see it.

Masters in Mental Health Counseling; art schools from Nicolas Wilton and Tracy Lupanow