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Text by Kay Bjork • Photography by Jim Wells
SHOW & TELL
ou might say artist Kim Randleas is a late bloomer.
Even though she showed an early interest and talent in art as she
played with the texture and boldness of charcoal and the magical
flow of watercolors, life's natural course filled her time with sports,
then college, picking up in intensity when she married, had a
family and entered the world of business with her husband running
restaurants and a hotel in eastern Oregon.
In 2011 they sold the restaurants and Kim thought she would
relish her newfound time and freedom. She did – for a while
– but then found herself missing the creativity she found as an
entrepreneur. So she ordered paints and canvases – and then came
the serendipitous event when her father pulled an easel out of the
barn and told her, "Maybe you should paint." She thought she had
found a new hobby to fill the empty spot in her heart. She was
partially right, it filled her heart, but it quickly became much
more than a hobby.
Going with the Flow
To Capture a Moment in Time
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KIM RANDLEAS
Photo by: Kyle Cline