About

Kim Rempel is a visual artist living in Grimsby, Ontario. Over the course of her career she has worked in plein air, landscape, daily painting (the practice of creating a small work daily and posting them to a blog) and abstract. Rempel has exhibited multiple times at the Toronto Artist Project and the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. In 2024 she enjoyed a three week painting residency in British Columbia. Kim is a graduate of Sheridan College's Illustration program.

Rempel: Although many things go into creating a successful painting, colour relationships are what fuel my work. What does this stroke look like against that stroke? What happens to the mood of a piece when I paint this colour beside that colour? These questions excite me and propel me to keep investigating. We view a lot of images every day but then one day, you walk by a painting and you stop. Something about it stirs you. It could be a feeling the colours are giving you or something in the subject that brings back a private memory. It’s personal. And it takes you to another place.

Rempel is represented by Petroff Gallery in Toronto, Westland Gallery in London and Art Gallery of Burlington.

2024 Painting Residency, March 14-April 3, Caetani Centre, Vernon, BC

2022 Group Show, September 20-October 8, Westland Gallery, London, ON

2021 Together Again (with Nancy L. Moore), September 12-Januray 11, Art Casa, 33 Charles Street East, Toronto

2021 Rooted and Refreshed, Westland Gallery, London, ON

2019 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON

2018 Toronto Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, ON

2017 Toronto Outdoor Art Expo, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON

2017 Toronto Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, ON

2016 Toronto Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, ON

2015 Toronto Outdoor Art Expo, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON

2015 May Day, Jeffrey Meier Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey, USA

2014 Toronto Outdoor Art Expo, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON

2014 On the Rock – Merging Art & Ecology, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Ontario

2013 Beyond the Wall: Unpacking the Layers of St. Catharines’ Walls, City of St. Catharines’ 9th Annual Juried Show, Ontario

2012 Summer Show, Gallery M, Cambridge, Ontario

2012 Late Winter Show, TAG Art Gallery, St. Catharines, Ontario

2011 International Women Celebrate!, AyrSpace, Ayr, Ontario

2011 Bruno Capolongo Invitational, Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts, Hamilton, Ontario

2011 Mingled Pieces: A duet, Lincoln Library, Beamsville, Ontario

2010 Summertime and the living is easy, AyrSpace, Ayr, Ontario

2010 Members Show, Sunrise Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

2009 Escarpment: On the Edge, St. Catharines City Hall, St. Catharines, Ontario

2009 Red Herring, White Lie, Jordan Art Gallery, Jordan, Ontario

2007 Portraits of St. Nick, Mosaika Gallery, Jordan, Ontario

2007 Art & Wine, travelling exhibition, Niagara Region, Ontario

2006 St. Catharines in Person, St. Catharines City Hall, St. Catharines, Ontario

2006 Portraits of St. Nick, Lincoln Library, Beamsville, Ontario

Education

2019 Advanced Abstract Painting with Jenny Nelson, Woodstock, NY

2009 Daily Painting with Carol Marine, Jacksonville, FL

2005-2010 Plein Air classes with Catherine Gibbon

1989 Illustration degree, Sheridan College, Brampton, ON

Awards

2010 First Place: Inksetter Pond, Sunrise Gallery, Hamilton, ON Judges: Marla Panko, Mori McCrae

Associations

Advisory Board Member, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario  2012-2017