My name is Kimby Faires and I am a self-taught painter from San Francisco, California. I began painting in 1999 after the death of my father. I sold a couple of pieces; however, life took over and I put down my brushes for several years. It wasn't until life as I knew and (thought) I understood ceased to exist in early 2010. This is when I decided to start painting again, in earnest. The last two years have been successful and fulfilling in regard to my blossoming art career. I paint virtually every day and I am constantly striving to improve and expand upon my techniques and skills. I paint primarily in oils; however, have been exploring acrylics recently.
I prefer to consider myself an abstract expressionist but also enjoy paintings landscapes. I have a deep love for the sky, animals, and the natural world be it trees, seashells, the texture seen in nature, or the endless sky. I thrive most when I am taking a construct or idea, an event, a feeling, or a moment and translating the visual interpretations of a concept into form and reality onto the canvas. I have a strong imagination and abstractive techniques of painters such as Mark Rothko both inspire and confound me. For me, painting fulfills a bottomless void that inherently exists within that which makes up the tiny fragments that meld together to make up 'me'. It feeds my soul because there is nothing organic or living on the planet that can fill up this empty space.....except painting. It’s a need to satisfy the interruption of everything we as a society refer to as normal. I welcome accidents. I embrace the sensation of loosing control over a painting. My process has to occur organically or I am left depleted. I love the wild abandon of limitless possibilities of color, texture, and form.
I heard someone once say that expectations are set-ups for future disappointments. I found this statement to be profound in regard to my approach with making art. As humans, we inherit limitations. My work up to this point has been a method of breaking through such obstacles. The starting point being the use of creative expression, becoming the spiritual translation of inner concepts into form.
I have learned that one does not need a fancy art degree in order to make art. I have learned the motions that I impart onto a canvas are really not mine but those of my innermost feelings, ramblings, and imagination. I have learned that I cannot possess or own my art. I am but a vehicle of a particular moment or a translation of a series of events onto a surface; therefore, I take no real ownership of the art itself. I am just an extension of a greater process at work. The highest respect I can hold for my work is the understanding that it was never mine to begin with. I am the temporary messenger connected to something that I may never be able to completely understand, much less put into words. Abstract expressionism is one way to define my paintings or perhaps it is simply the most simple description of the evolution of emotions into concrete form.
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