ABOUT

Kim Case is a Maine painter based in Cape Elizabeth. Trained in art history and photojournalism at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Kim painted her first canvases in 2002 after years behind the camera. Wanting a more direct connection with her materials, she turned to painting to engage with light, landscape, and atmosphere through her own hands.

Kim paints in her home studio and on the road across New England, building compositions through layered color and considered edges. The habits of a photographer remain in her process. She plans, edits, and looks for the small narrative that animates a scene, whether a farmhouse swing below the White Mountains or a luminescent buoy on Casco Bay. “I am always interested in people’s stories,” she says. This thread traces back to photojournalism and still guides her choices in composition and light.

Collectors know Kim for paintings that invite stillness and reflection, built slowly until the subject seems self-revealed. “Sometimes it feels less like creating,” she says, “and more like uncovering something that was waiting to be seen.”

 Kim lives in Cape Elizabeth with her husband and son.