Kim met Dali in 1974 after being introduced by mutual friends in New York. Her work made an immediate impression on the great surrealist master. Dali thought that to look at Kim's paintings was as if to 'look through coloured gauze'; this inspired him to describe Kim's work as diaphanous and to coin the term 'Diaphanism' for her style.

'Diaphanism', as a new word to describe an art style originating with Kim Poor, is to be included in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

	More Fool Me © 1976 Glass fused on steel 35 x 35 cm Exhibited in the 'Diaphanism' show at the Durini Gallery, 1992, London.
Moon Children © 1992 Glass fused on steel 30 x 35 cm Exhibited in the 'Diaphanism' show at the Durini Gallery, 1992, London. Auctioned at 'little pieces from big stars' exhibition in aid of War Child. Sold to Paul McCartney.