dain kim
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New Beginnings II
Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 30”
$1200
Habitat Series:
This series reflects on the quiet, instinctive search for belonging shared by all living beings, in moments of migration, adaptation, and rest. Through shifting colors and organic forms, I explore how we find sanctuary within change itself, and how any landscape can become a reflection of home.
New Beginnings III
Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 30”
$1200
Revive I
Acrylic on canvas, 12 × 24”
$655
Revive II
Acrylic on canvas, 12 × 24”
$655
Acrylic on canvas, 12 × 24”
Revive III
$655
Inspired by the resilient banana tree in my garden, a symbol of renewal and strength. With each season it withers and returns, a quiet reminder of nature’s enduring cycles.
Flow State (Yellow Moon)
Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 40”
$1800
Flow State (Red Moon)
Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 40”
$1800
Sometimes nature falls into a perfect flow state, every element in quiet harmony. Under the yellow moon, I tried to catch that effortless moment when sky, land, and moon seem to breathe as one.
Pink Oyster Flush
Acrylic on canvas, 15 × 30”
$880
Blue Turkey Tail
Acrylic on canvas, 15 × 30”
$880
Moonlight Glow
Acrylic on canvas, 15 × 30”
$880
Close-up studies of the fungi I find in damp, shaded places, often where something else has fallen away. Seen up close, each becomes its own quiet world, turning decay into new life in the overlooked corners we tend to pass by.
Blue Tropicana
Acrylic on canvas, 12 × 16”
$420
Spring Bloom
Acrylic on canvas, 12 × 16”
$420
Camellia in Blue
Acrylic on canvas, 12 × 16”
$420
Magnolia Love
Cactus Hill
Acrylic on canvas, 12 × 16”
$420
Botanic Journal:
Seasonal moments in nature’s rhythm, drawn from the botanical beings I encounter. I try to hold the precious, passing moment of each season, knowing we are changing alongside it.
On a Walk
Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 24”
$2500
The first landscape I painted after moving to Raleigh, from an early-spring walk along the trails at Umstead Park, when the trees were still bare. I remember the wild mushrooms on old, cut logs, quiet signs of life in the stillness.
A River Runs Through It
Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 24”
$1200
A landscape is like the first impression of a new place or person, uneasy at first, until some small detail connects us. Nature is the connective tissue of all life, shifting in scale and form like free jazz, yet always finding her way to a divine harmony.