"Sea My Sea Glass" Painting

Seascapes Collection "Water Dreams Series" Title:  "Sea My Sea Glass"
 30"x30" Acrylic Mixed Media on Thick Canvas Artist:  Kimberly J. Franklin About "Sea My Sea Glass" Painting Sea Glass is created when natural man-made glass objects fall victim to the ocean. There they are tossed & tumbled for weeks, months or years and transformed from shinny, sharp glass pieces into beautiful frosted translucent gems of color and light. This painting, a colorful, watery reflection of relics from the sea, evokes images of our own origin of life from our mothers’ protective wombs. There we too are transformed from cells into the full expression of our human form. Colorful, yet soothing, this painting is sure to add brightness and zen to a home, office, studio or restaurant.  
 Created by first sketching images in charcoal, Kimberly then begins the process by creating the forms in acrylic paint.  Then decorative and textural elements are added with medium that add to her vision.  Finally she unifies each painting by blending the paint in the textural areas.  The results are appealing, interesting, and charming.  Decorate your space today with an extraordinary painting that will get much attention and many praises.     Artist's Statement
 In a world where dreams and water merge and flow, where reality and the surreal morph into one, “Water Dreams” is metaphor for life.  Continuously shifting and evolving with the tide, the soul too is transformed on its journey to the summit.  Often times, the path is not clear, but rocky, murky, dark and unknown.  We encounter experiences that can leave us fragile and spinning to find the direction of the light.  Yet, if we can find stillness, the element that connects us to the Divine, we find ourselves floating in the tranquility of the present.  By simply, “letting go,” it is in this space that we discover peace and are free. Artist's Biography
 Landlocked by the prairies, foothills, and mountains of the suburban 1970’s Denver, Kimberly Franklin (born Kimberly Tracy) was always mesmerized by the sea since her early childhood.  And she was always creating something from costumes to handmade books and drawings, as art and expression was ubiquitous to her world from the beginning.  

In college, Kim attended the University of New Mexico and studied Biology and Chemistry, which fascinated her.  She became particularly enamored with the intricate, pattern-filled cellular structures under a microscope, all throughout nature, and forms within the human body.  Her two favorite hobbies became her marine aquarium, which was teeming with life, colors and floating mysteries, and her sketchbook.  

Then there were her surroundings with the dry yet colorful deserts of New Mexico.  She became captivated by Georgia O'Keeffe's flowing and folded flowers, sumptuous undulating landscapes of bending hills and splendid color and light.  After finally taking formal art classes, she found the colors, patterns and forms from Biology articulated now in her artwork.  But, it wasn't until her move to Florida's Gulf Coast for graduate school, where she was transformed by the water and the water transformed her paintings.

Flowing, colorful and ethereal, Kim Franklin's work conveys a sensation of life, tranquility and of stillness.  The ebb and flow of life from desert to ocean has shaped her artistic language and vision.  In her own worlds, "these rich experiences and relics have found their way into my dreams and onto my canvases."    May these paintings transform you as much as they have transformed me.  Kimberly J. Franklin