Colorful Friends Print

Jim Killon is an American born humanitarian, author and accidental artist living in the Andean mountains of Peru since 2009. When he first arrived in Peru he did not speak Spanish so his NGO for disadvantaged children, called Changes for New Hope, became a series of multimedia art projects to express themselves. To lift the self esteem of the children he asked a local museum to exhibit their artwork as well as his own. Since that first exhibition he has exhibited in eight more venues, five of which were national museums. "It all began just because it was the only way I could communicate to the Peruvian kids and their families. Obviously, the more you practice the better you will become. So now, I try a variety of new things using clay, watercolor, collage, pen and ink, colored pencils, paper mache, photography and found objects to create artwork. I really enjoy doing it so if people see it and feel somehow inspired and if it makes the world a little happier place, well, that is a beautiful thing, isn't it?"