Conant Brook

I never know what the painting will look like until the end of this process and I am always surprised.  I take away from this experience a painting and a memory of the day, of the heat, and the two friends who I painted with. The blues, greens, purples, yellows of the sky and grasses. The water and the distance across the rolling land.  How far away from me this small section of landscape is.  This process creates in me a feeling of joy. To move the oil paint across the canvas with a brush is joy. The colors of nature…composing the image. I look at the paintings whether years, months or days after with a longing to be back in that moment.

conant-brook

Oil on canvas 5″ x 7″ 2016  Price $1,200

Author: Artist - Painter - Writer

Kim Gagné is a painter and nonfiction writer whose work explores memory, family, and the emotional resonance of everyday life. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Swain School of Design (now part of UMass Dartmouth), attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s nine-week summer residency, and studied at Parsons School of Design’s New School MFA program. In 2024, she completed an MFA in Nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University’s Mountainview MFA program. Her visual and written work often intertwines, drawing from photographs, personal history, and lived experience to examine how grief, resilience, and imagination shape our inner landscapes. Gagné creates work that moves fluidly between storytelling, memory, and material form—melding narrative depth with painterly expression. Whether through oil paint or prose, she evokes layered emotional truths that resist simple categorization. She works out of her studio at the 204 Cultural Arts Municipal Building in Harwich, Massachusetts

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