Kim Conway has always painted, drawn, and created stories. He lives in a Montana cabin where she’s surrounded by foxes, birds, and the occasional bear. She depicts these animals lovingly in all her artwork, especially in her new line of cards with Allport Editions! Even from childhood, Kim has always been attracted to use readily available things, to make distinctions and compliment with ordinary materials. She crafts her hand-made greeting card designs in a colorful and playful cut-paper collage style. She says that touch is very important, the softness, the smoothness, warm, cool, and how color interrelates in the particular surrounding to bring about the image of the subject. She thinks with her art materials. Ideas are jotted down as fragments of ideas, as thumbnails, as she encounters them. Later, she comes back to these fragments and sees if pieces may be combined for a larger idea and if they are worthy expansion.
Apart from painting she loves floating down the river, hiking, gardening, and the process of investigation intrinsic in the creation of each new work. Kim has always been attracted to multiples of form and environmental manipulations. Large art that compliments, alters or encompasses a space, allowing it to create its own story is what she likes. She likes to use discovery and exploration. Does it make the viewer want to run over rolling hills, to move their feet, or does it make them want to explore with their sense of hearing or to touch and get the feel. She’s affiliated to many professional organizations where she also claims membership.
