Message From Kim
I'd like to extend a very warm thank you to everyone who's visited the site and sent messages - many of these have been truly warming and I just didn't realise there was such feeling out there for my work. In that sense the website has been quite an education and it's wonderful to be reminded that Art matters and can make a difference. The downside has been that I just haven't been able to find time to reply to everyone, or even put together this newsletter, until now. There have also been lots of requests for prints etc. and I really must apologise profusely for the long delay in making these available and getting our sales desk up and running. I'm delighted to report that we now finally have the first prints and also greetings cards (ideal for Christmas !) and the catalogue from the 'Legends' exhibition.

I'm now back in draughty old England again after three months in Rio. The show at the Modern Art Museum was a great success, so much so that they twisted my arm into extending it for another month, making it a two month extravaganza in total (the staff drew up a petition and invited visitors to sign it!).

If you couldn't visit the exhibition - which I would think applies to almost everybody on this mailing list :-) then we now have the 'Legends of the Amazon' virtual tour up and running to view on the site or download.

I was touched that my Amazonian project was so well received, and particularly so that so many schoolkids visited and were interested in the paintings and the legends that accompanied them. The paintings exhibited were all done in my technique of glass powder fused on steel plates - the 'Diaphanist' approach, which Edward Lucie-Smith, the art critic and commentator, has named "Paintings Without Edges"!

Our next stop will be Sao Paulo. The 'Legends of the Amazon' exhibition will open there on 14th January at the beautiful Museo da Casa Brasileira, a beautiful old mansion on Faria Lima (Help! I need to do some more paintings!).

Um beijo,

Kim