Award-winning artist Kim Wilder Hinson started drawing as soon as she could hold a pencil, and if the vast quantity of paper scraps her mother saved over the years are any indication, her parents were proud of their daughter’s abilities.
Art lessons weren’t available in her small North Carolina town, so during childhood Kim relied on studying Walter Foster’s “learn to draw” books and drawing everything she saw around her.
A graphic design career put drawing and painting on hold for thirty years. In 2017, Kim and her husband house sat for an artist in Scotland who was kind enough to allow full use of her studio and materials during the month they were in residence. Thanks to the generosity of this artist, Kim rediscovered her love of painting.
Kim works in several mediums, but her favorite is soft pastels. Kim’s specialty is photo-realistic animal paintings. She also enjoys plein air painting wherever in the world she happens to be.
Her work hangs in private collections in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
