QUICK SCROLL Award-winning designer turned painter creates imaginative landscapes, exhibiting globally from Pennsylvania museums to Florida galleries. kimmcaninch.com Kim McAninch’s One Passionate Vision Ohio Roots to Florida Studio Kim McAninch was born in Lakewood, Ohio, and grew up in Bay Village. She studied Surface Pattern Design at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she met her husband. For 17 years, she designed wallpaper and fabric for Imperial Wallcoverings in Beachwood, creating everything from vinyl tablecloths to carpet. The couple moved to Pittsburgh in 2012, then to sunny Sarasota, Florida in 2018. Art That Travels the Globe Kim is an award-winning member of the National Association of Women Artists. Her paintings have been featured in major solo exhibitions at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Pennsylvania, Preservation Hall in Massachusetts, and the Alliance for the Arts in Florida. Collectors worldwide purchase her work through galleries, her website, and platforms like Saatchi Art. Paint, Passion, and Process Working with pencil, oil pastels, ink, acrylic, and oil paint, Kim creates landscapes both real and imagined. She uses the horizon as her organizing tool while keeping scale and location mysterious. This freedom allows her to use color in unexpected ways. Her work moves between realistic and abstract styles, inspired by artists Milton Avery and Pierre Bonnard. She focuses on creating inviting spaces that encourage viewers to enter her painted worlds.
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