Kimberly Engle

Kimberly Engle grew up loving both science and art, taking painting classes along with physics and math while in college. She's an Astrophysicist and IT Expert by day and a Fine Artist by night. She prefers to spend most of her free time outdoors hiking and exploring with her dogs, and even volunteers as an NPS park ranger. As a result she prefers painting landscapes, especially plein air, in the style of realistic impressionism. Her favorite topics include her rural neighborhood, scenes in an around the Shenandoah National Park, and Maine where she often vacations.

Kimberly has been studying art all her life. But in the past 5 years she has immersed herself in classes and workshops, working with preferred mediums of oil and gouache and has started dabbling with watercolor. She has enjoyed exploring different techniques and approaches with various artists, which has helped her develop her own personal style that combines the details of the landscape with an impressionistic interpretation using brilliant colors and vibrant grays to describe the scene.

Kimberly loves to capture light in her paintings- the play of warm and cool color, sunlight streaming through trees and onto fresh snow, backlit trees that seem to glow, and the yellow light near sunset that bathes the landscape in beautiful golden effulgence. She strives to allow the viewer to feel the light and warmth, and experience the feeling of the scene as if they were there.