Bank St

This was painted in the fall of 2015…..winter was approaching and I was unemployed.  I was thinking of leaving Cape Cod and eventually did.  Packed up my car and drove down the east coast and across country, ending in Arizona for the winter.

I thought of Bank Street so much while I was gone.  I missed it and wondered why I left.  I missed the ocean, and the winter while I basked in the sun and the beautiful weather of the desert.

Thought of all the times I went to this beach and sat there with my mind quiet watching the magnificent ocean. I didn’t know how much I loved this place until I left.

When I got back to Cape Cod in the Spring…..I was overwhelmed with the beauty of the landscape……and the constant change of it from sunrise to sunset.  The earth is so beautiful it amazes me.

12″ x 8.5″ Oil on Masonite1. Bank St

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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