Kimberly Trowbridge
Painter, 2020 Creative Fellow

Kimberly is an oil painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory. She was a Bloedel Reserve Creative Resident in 2018 and in 2020 received the first Creative Fellowship in partnership with Bloedel Reserve and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA). Her first solo museum exhibition will open in October of 2020 at BIMA.

Kimberly is a two-time Neddy Award finalist (2014, 2016), and an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient (2014). She is the director of the Trowbridge Atelier of Painting, at Gage Academy of Art and has led plein-air painting tours in Spain, Portugal, and Twisp, WA.

Kimberly on Art and Nature

“Being in nature is a mystical experience not unlike the creative act – a synesthetic exchange occurs, revealing essential connections and insights.” It is from nature that Kimberly develops her understanding of the harmonious relationships between color, shape, form, and rhythm. Like a gardener, she records and cultivates these relationships within the formal choreography of painting.