Kim Tester is a practicing artist working in prints and drawings.  She has two studio locations: her print studio, and the great outdoors where herplein air works are created. 

Artist Statement: Prints/Drawings

My work is interpretive.  To create something that offers us a way to find "flow" can be a nebulous adventure. I’ve been on a journey, trying to rediscover what it means to create, to document the natural life around me, and to integrate that with the world that exists in my head, or my alternate reality.  Learning to live in the moment is an extraordinary skill. That insight is not obtained by following a narrow straight path, but veering off, circling, pitching, and connecting collectively with others. Color has a need to flow, too and I take complete pleasure in letting this application process unfold. When I choose a color or a mark, I hope it reflects who I am at that moment. It is a very freeing experience!” 

Bio:

Kim recently retired as Chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Canterbury School, a private preparatory high school in New Milford, CT. During her 30 + year tenure she taught courses in Printmaking, Sculpture, Architecture, Drawing, and all AP/Advanced level portfolio courses. Kim is currently an elected official in her town of Roxbury, CT. She serves on the Board of Selectmen and is Vice-Chair of the Zoning Commission.

Kim was Adjunct Professor of Art at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT for almost twenty years. She received several “Faculty Recognition Awards for Professional Excellence in the Arts” from WCSU. She has been a Guest Visiting Artist at several universities around the country and has presented workshops demonstrating “Water-based Reductive Screen Printing” at Southern Graphics National conferences and the Mid America Print Conference. Kim has participated in many exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Her prints and drawings are in public and private collections throughout the United States and in Japan.

Prints and Drawings are on view below.

MFA - Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
BS - Southern CT ST University, New Haven, CT

Contact: ktester51@gmail.com