Kim Matthews Wheaton is a local artist with an international vision. Having shown her work in Paris on many occasions, she takes an erudite approach to the vast landscape of her adopted home in Eastern Washington. Her perceptive renderings of our gorgeous natural surroundings help us to reexamine the light, the air and the powerful essence of the land that envelops us.
Kim Matthews Wheaton was born in New York City and grew up in San Francisco and Berkeley, California as well as parts of Connecticut. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from U. C. Berkeley, where she studied with Elmer Bischoff and sought out the influences of Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. Since 1997, she has lived and painted in the Columbia Basin region of Eastern Washington with her family, dogs and horses close at hand.
Wheaton’s current work is often executed in her car while she races against fading light, temperature variations and other whims of nature. The hues in her work are mixed from the three primary colors until they represent the vision of the artist exactly, which leads to works filled with anticipation, inspiration and pleasure.
Hi Kim, I just received an e-mail from Victoria’s Avenue Gallery showing your work as a new artist there. I also show there, and I just love your work. Really powerful. Gives me shivers. Love the abstraction and great design sense you bring to your landscape. Check out my work on my site if you have time. So very different from yours! I hope you will write back.
Catherine Moffat
Hi Catherine—
Thank you so much for your email. Your work is beautiful! I looked at your site and also the Penninsula Gallery site. I’m very flattered that you wrote to me.
I hope our paths will cross sometime in Victoria.
Kim