About Kimberly
Currently residing in the Washington DC area, Kimberly Yourick has been an artist since childhood. In her youth, she took drawing lessons at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum and studied under acrylic and water color painters such as Carol Pursell Baliles. Through high school, she continued her artistic endeavors by taking an art-based curriculum of ceramics, sculpture, drawing, and painting. She was accepted at and participated in several Maryland Centers for the Gifted and Talented Art Summer Programs. She later attended the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis where she was a Conway Scholarship finalist and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in metalsmithing. While at Washington University, she studied under internationally acclaimed artist and teacher Heikki Seppa, a Finnish American master metalsmith.
Through the years, Kimberly has participated in various group shows and was a member of the Montgomery Art Association. She is currently a member of the Friends of the Yellow Barn Studio. For the last four years, she has had the gift of being able to study under Walter Bartman, a renowned teacher, painter, and artist from the Washington DC area.
Kimberly’s work has expanded from pastel painting to oil painting, working in plein air. She has exhibited her paintings at the Glenview Mansion in Rockville Maryland, at the Wren’s Nest in Middletown Maryland as well as through the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo Maryland.
Intention
“With my work, I attempt to capture a moment in time, particularly in nature, when we experience an overwhelming sense of color, gesture, distance, and mood that is not easily described in words. This would be an emotional moment when one is touched by visual beauty that a camera cannot capture. I do much of my painting in plein air to record these moments. I would like to connect the viewer of my work with enjoying being present with their sense of color and movement, and for that experience to be vibrant and steady anytime they want to have it. I do strive, in much of my work, to leave the viewer with a feeling of vastness, hope, and wondering about what lies ahead. My wish is that this visual experience will provide regular respite to the stress and strain of daily life.”
– Kimberly