Kim Hancock
Abstract expressionism in mixed media — acrylic and latex, spray paint, crayon, oil, collage and pastel.
Arts Afire Gallery, Coombs, British Columbia. Open to the public 10–4, Monday to Friday, through the summer.
In her own
words
I paint from my heart. I leave lots of room for the viewer to see what they see in it. Kim Hancock
Hancock works in abstract expressionism, in mixed media. Acrylic and latex paint, spray paint, crayon, oil, collage and pastel go into the same surface and are worked into one another until the painting arrives at something she is willing to stop at.
She is deliberate about titles, and deliberately sparing with them. A painting is not named in order to tell you what is in it. What the surface suggests is left to the person standing in front of it, which is the point of working this way at all.
She studied at the University of British Columbia and at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Before settling on Vancouver Island she lived and worked in Japan — where she worked in a gallery and taught English — as well as Germany, Bali, Australia, New Zealand, England and Spain. Arts Afire Gallery has been open in Coombs since 2000.
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Select a collection and view them in full screen. What do you see? What do you feel? What name does this piece evoke in you? You can click on the right side in full screen mode to see the details and the title given by the artist.
Enquiries
Arts Afire Gallery, 869 Shawn Road, Coombs, British Columbia