When you think of Highlands’ Old Edwards Inn, style, elegance, and art come to mind.
Kimberly Edwards Woodman, fifth-generation of the Highlands Edwards lineage, reveals her innate artistry on this issue’s cover.
Kim’s paint flows like the watercourses she adores. Her favorite subjects are babbling brooks, rivers, and streams.
As you view her work, perhaps you might hear a waterfall sing an opera, basso to soprano. Nature has quite a repertoire and Kim can capture it. She has an artistic gift for painting invitations to the senses of scenery: color, sound, even fragrance. Her talents are family-bestowed, and daily treasured.
Kim is a plein air painter, an artist who’s eager to see and capture what’s going on in the world, particularly Nature.
She says, “Highlands is full of great vistas. You get out there and there’s an adrenalin rush near any falls or river. Such a great feeling. I love to incorporate rushing water, capturing Nature’s color palette as light plays with its movement.”
Kim adds, “I feel like I’ve done art forever.”
Her mother was an oil painter, craftswoman, and seamstress. Her Highlands grandmother stitched heritage quilts. Her gran’s artistry spread to the kitchen.
“During my childhood years, we never ate at a restaurant in Highlands (though they’re fabulous),” she says. “Why eat out when you have great cooks in your family?”
In addition to what Kim learned from family role models, she took classes.
“I was an art major, but having two children, family came first,” she says. “When my kids went to college, it was time to look for what’s next. I went back into continuing education classes. Never stop learning is my hubby’s motto, so I started taking workshops from master painters. Seminars anywhere. These classes led me to oil painting. I remembered the love and the fascinating smell of oil paints and that of my grandmother’s painting.”
Kimberly Edwards-Woodman
So she took great delight in plunging a brush into pigment. It felt like home. Mother Nature’s scenery went from creekside to canvas to mantle or walls in many patron’s homes far and wide.
You can see her work at Jeanie Edwards Fine Art Gallery in Highlands. Jeanie is Kim’s cousin and her good friend. But that’s not why Jeanie shows her cousin’s work. Kim’s work is simply amazing and worthy of any gallery anywhere.
Visit her website KeWoodman.com; or vist Jeanie Edwards Fine Art at 223 South 4th Street in Highlands.
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