About
Kim LaFave is moved to understand the world through ideas and conversations in drawing and painting, capturing and abstracting key moments in time, landscapes and themes via dynamic, gestural imagery. Constantly evolving his vision and expression, Kim’s artistic process is one of discovery, reflection, deconstruction and re-assembly. By questioning each subject, through investigations in material, texture, line and colour, he distills essential meaning, value and power. The end result is at once grounded and complete, evocative and expansive.
Kim lives on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and is profoundly inspired by the natural beauty of his surroundings, along with urban and marine settings, and travels to new and familiar places.
EDUCATION:
1976 Summer studies at the Illustrators Workshop Tarrytown NY.
1975-1976 Alberta College of Art and Design
1974 Capilano College. Graphic Design and Illustration
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Power of Paint:Eleven Equal Artists (group) 2017
50 Canadian Stories (group) Sechelt, BC 2017
Visions of Home (group) Gibsons Public Art Gallery 2016
Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) 2016
Gibsons Public Art Gallery "Safe Harbours" (solo) Gibsons, BC. 2016
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, 2015
Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC, 2015
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, 2014
Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC, 2014
Our Forest Show: Gibsons Public Art Gallery (group), 2014
Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC, 2013
Gibsons Public Art Gallery (group), 2013
Power of Paint: Eleven Equal Artists (group) Sechelt, BC, 2012
Juried Art Show Sechelt, BC, 2011
Westwind Gallery: “What is Still Life” (group), Gibsons, BC, 2010
National Gallery of Canada, CCBC, Group Exhibition, Ottawa, Ontario, 2009
Westwind Gallery (solo) Show, Gibsons, BC, 2009
Westwind Gallery: “Our Common Connection” (group), Gibsons, BC, 2008
Westwind Gallery (solo) Show, Gibsons, BC, 2007
Bellevue Gallery Children’s Illustration Show (group), 2007
Westwind Gallery (solo) Show, Gibsons, BC, 2005
“Happily Ever After” Touring exhibition (group) organized by Surrey Art Gallery Group Show, 2004
Represented by Westwind Gallery, Gibsons 2005-2011