Kim Canale is a multidisciplinary artist whose work drifts between abstraction, memory, and emotion. Based on the Northeast coast of Scotland, she runs Studio Canale, a creative space where her own paintings, curated artworks, and carefully sourced furniture and objects come together in harmony.

A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and its MFA programme, Kim’s early career took her across Europe as a design consultant. Over time, her path shifted toward fine art, leading to exhibitions including a 2011 show at Galleria Tornabuoni in Florence with Italian artist Mauro Betti.

Her practice spans painting, writing, collage, and text—always visually led and emotionally charged:

“Music and words have always been a catalyst to making my work, like portals, they transport me into a different emotional place. I never begin with a clear image, but with a feeling.”

Her paintings are intimate and non-representational, using abstract gestural mark-making as a visual language. Whether exploring metaphysical abstraction or remembered landscapes, her work is a quiet meditation on love, loss, and the liminal spaces in between. Sea and sky recur as emotional metaphors—shaped not by how they look, but by how they make us feel.

Current series include gestural abstract works, expressive seascapes, and her ongoing Flower Series, inspired by residencies at Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House and the storied gardens of Sissinghurst. A new body of abstract paintings, exploring the theme of Love + Loss, will be exhibited soon.

Kim is writing a book on art and design, continuing to blur the lines between maker, curator, and storyteller.  A curated approach to living artfully.