Kim Moulder

The approach I take to painting can start with words, a feeling, a photograph of flowers or landscape, a color combination that excites me, or a collage element that I particularly like. The work evolves from there and I never know where it will end up. I lay down the beginning layers with paint or collage and this guides the color and feel of the piece from the from the very beginning. Spontaneity can take it in a new direction. That is exciting to me because I never know where a painting will end up.

When I am working in my studio—color, paint, and surface all seem to sing as the piece progresses. Often I get lost in the process—but really, I'm finding myself again and again.

Kim completed a Bachelor of Fine Art, in the School of Fine Art at Auburn University with a concentration in Graphic Design. She has worked as a designer for over 30 years while exploring illustration and fine art painting in different mediums. She takes full advantage of the many opportunities online to learn from other artists and loves to be able to share her own experience.

Kim's primary art was in watercolor in the early 2000s and 2010s. She showed and sold her work locally in many shows and venues during that time. In 2011, she started exploring abstract collage and did a series of small paintings in this style. Which has led to her exploration into abstract expressionist painting today. While raising her family she worked from home as a freelance graphic designer and web designer, spent some time exploring surface pattern design with an eight week intensive course which led to showing at an international surface design trade show in NYC in 2014. Since then, Kim has continued with design work—but more recently has increased her intended daily practice of painting which she hopes will lead to more exhibitions and expansion online.

Her most recent exhibitions:

November 2019 – 25th Anniversary Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County Community Art Show.

November 15 to December 17, 2020
Rooted to Hope – Juried Online Exhibit organized by The Stamford Art Association and Quinn Whelan. Curated by Benice Horowitz, award winning painter and teacher. This is a fundraiser in support of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations. http://stamfordartassociation.org/townhouse.html