Oil on masonite 8″ x 11″ 2015 Price $1,200
Author: Painter - Writer
Kim Gagné is a painter and writer born in Attleboro, Massachusetts. At eighteen, she attended the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, now part of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she earned a BFA in oil painting.
At Swain, Gagné studied painting with David Loffler Smith and Ben Martinez.
During her third year, she received a fully funded scholarship to attend the nine-week Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture summer residency in Madison, Maine, where she made small landscape paintings.
After graduating from Swain, Gagné moved to Manhattan and continued her study of oil painting with Paul Resika and Leland Bell in the MFA program at Parsons School of Design’s New School. She later returned to Massachusetts and began a career with Verizon as a design engineer.
In 2019, Gagné received a fellowship to attend the month-long Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, Wyoming. In 2024, she earned an MFA in nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University’s Mountainview program.
Gagné’s paintings and writing are rooted in the childhood, people, places, and values that formed her. Painting and writing are how she investigates the world—through image, language, color, and lived experience. She lives and works on Cape Cod, and her studio is located in the 204 Cultural Arts Municipal Building in Harwich, Massachusetts.
Payomet
The shadow the building cast on the grass was interesting to me….it was a very bright day and the wind made it cold. I enjoyed the soft blue sky and it’s airiness against the solid shape of the building and shadow.
8″ x 10″ Oil on Canvas 2015 Price $1,200
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Cottages
Standing high above North Truro painting. My heart is fully invested in this moment. I am moved by the beauty of the land as always and also the significance of the row of cottages. So much variety in the land….with the grasses, roads, water, sky and the light changing. This moment was poetry.
Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ 2015 Sold
North Truro
My focus is closer to the immediate road near me and the trees and grass along it. The dirt road actually is a sandy and rocky road. A mad dash of light and shadows and always the sky…..not so airy here…… a heavy dense blue that rests on the jaggedness of the landscape.
Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ 2015 Price $1,500
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Wellfleet 2
This was a hot summer day and the colors of the dunes were rich. I love being outside surrounded by the beautiful earth. Using a smaller brush to draw the direction.
Oil on canvas 5″ x 7″ 2015 Price $1,200
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Payomet Building
Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″ 2015 Price $1,300