Kimberlee Sullivan's abstract paintings are inspired by phenomena found and exposed within the natural world.  This influence has remained an endless wellspring throughout Sullivan's painting career.  It is the entry point from where Sullivan begins her imaginative exploration of underlying patterns, structures, and perplexities found in nature.  In her earlier works, Sullivan chose to depict such occurrences like cellular patterns of plant life or cast shadows of trees in a more realistic manner.  Now, Sullivan chooses to convey such environmental wonders organically through abstraction.

       The artist describes in her notebook: "A fleeting moment of time captured in clouds moving across the sky, ever changing ripples of water at a river's edge, or branch clusters creating negative spaces.  It is because of these   

dynamic yet perpetual moments that I strive to capture the natural environment's visual expressions."

       The paintings with their high gloss resin surfaces entice the viewer with variation that skips from matte to slick.  Sullivan creates texture by constantly choosing to paint over resin, remove paint, or add more resin. This process both builds great depth with which to submerge the individual works and lends a sense of intrigue as to what lies below the multi-layered surface. 

       The drawings are a continuous investigation into the story of our weather patterns day to day.  The different shapes and elemental forms are drawn and then obscured by the constant distillation and the serendipity of gestural drawing.