Her artistic journey began early and joyfully at her grandparents humble kitchen table in a “war time house”, in the small mining community of Geraldton in Northern Ontario. She thinks about how her grandparents would respond today if they only knew she was one of 79 artists selected throughout North America to be featured in a new publication, Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century (Schiffer Press, 2016). Those endless sheets of blank paper and crayons lovingly supplied many years ago rooted Kim for a lifetime of creative expression. Today her encaustic paintings are characterized by symbolic imagery developed in rich layers of jewel coloured waxes, textures and glittering gold leaf. One collector describes them as “Magical Wonderlands”.