Kim Nelson

“. . . And then you get an artist like Kim Nelson. No obvious fixed style. He’s fluid – realist, surrealist, symbolist, even abstract at times – but his women . . . Their beauty is strength. They stare at the viewer – or at the distant horizon – with a purpose. There’s an almost tangible internal power in them, a confidence. They’re modern and liberated, but not stereotyped. And they’re beautiful. But they’re nothing like Waterhouse’s ideal. Nelson is a modern painter, painting modern women, even when his settings are classical. And his vision makes a statement. . . .”

-Brian Caswell ‘Double Exposure’

Kim Nelson lives with his wife and daughter and a rabbit with attitude in the foothills of the Brindabella Mountains not far from Australia’s national capital, Canberra.