ARTISTS

Kim Grall

American b. 1961, Berea, OH, based in Westminster Station, VT

About Kim Grall

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Kim Grall

Leafy Basket

2022

Encaustic over leaves, iris leaf cordage, spun wool, and handmade paper with grape vine handle on flat bushel gourd

14 x 15 x 13 in

$425

Kim Grall

Box with Butterflies

2021

Encaustic medium over butterfly wings, handmade paper, and smoke bush leaves with iris leaf cordage and an unknown nut on a sm. bushel gourd

6.5 x 6 x 6 in

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Kim Grall

Checkerboard Bowl

2021

Encaustic medium over birch bark, handmade paper and amaranth dye on basketball gourd

3.5 x 9 x 9 in

$110

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Kim Grall

Multi-colored Bird Bowl

2018

Encaustic medium over handmade paper, dyes and bittersweet vine tiles on basketball gourd

6 x 9.5 x 9.5 in

$225

Kim Grall Dragonfly Bowl 2021

Kim Grall

Dragonfly Bowl

2021

Encaustic medium, handmade paper, zebra grass, bamboo leaves, and gourd seeds on basketball gourd with onion skin dye

8.5 x 10 x 10 in

$165

Kim Grall

Dazzle of Zebras

2022

Encaustic over pyrography, handmade paper, iris leaf cordage, and beet powder stain with grape vine handle and vintage bronze base on Martin gourd

17 x 8 x 9 in

$225

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Kim Grall

Out of Africa

2022

Encaustic over handmade paper, smoke bush and bamboo leaves, iris leaf cordage and seed pods on Martin gourd

17 x 9 x 9 in

$195

Kim Grall Insect Percussion  2021

Kim Grall

Insect Percussion

2021

Encaustic medium, paper, various cordage and Job’s Tears on Club gourd

17 x 6 x 6 in

$150

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Kim Grall

Bowl with 5 Ornaments

2021

(bowl) Encaustic medium over handmade paper and amaranth dye on cannonball gourd, (ornaments) Encaustic medium over handmade paper on sub-mini gourds

4 x 5.5 x 5.5 in

$195

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Kim Grall

Horse Basket

2019

Martin gourd with paper

11 x 7 x 7 in

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Kim Grall

Blackbird Basket

2021

Encaustic medium, paper, leaves, iris leaf cordage and yellow oxide pigment on Sm. Martin gourd

13 x 7 x 7 in

$135

Kim Grall

Autumn bowl

2020

Mixed media encaustic with day lily leaf cordage on cannonball gourd

3 x 6.5 x 6.5 in

$105

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Kim Grall

Ivy Basket

2019

Paper, various cordage and clay beads on Lg. Martin gourd

16 x 10 x 10 in

$185

Kim Grall

Swan Box

2021

Encaustic medium, paper and cotoneaster berry on Sm. Kettle gourd

8 x 6 x 6 in

$85

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Kim Grall

Bittersweet Bowl

2021

Encaustic medium, bittersweet leaves and vine, iris leaf cordage, leather button and black walnut powder on Cannonball gourd

3 x 6 x 6 in

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Kim Grall

Giraffe box

2020

Carved and stained with leather cord trim on wren house gourd

9.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 in

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Kim Grall

Birchbark Bowl

2021

Encaustic medium, birchbark, leaves and iris leaf cordage on Basketball gourd

5 x 9.5 x 9.5 in

$145

Kim Grall

Bee Bowl

2020

Encaustic medium, paper, fabric, bittersweet vine tiles and walnut oil on Cannonball gourd

3.5 x 6.5 x 6.5

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Kim Grall

Big Leaf Bowl

2019

Encaustic medium, paper, bittersweet vine and cord rim on Lg. Flat bushel gourd

9 x 13 x 13 in

$325

Kim Grall

Tropical Bird Box

2015

Dyes, cordage and odd bits of jewelry on Tobacco box gourd

10 x 9 x 9 in

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Kim Grall

Dragonfly

2021

Encaustic medium, paper, bittersweet vine and fabric on gourd pieces

27 x 34 x 18 in

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Kim Grall

Red Is Just A Color (mask)

2019

Top of flat bushel gourd with vine, fiber, leather, beads, feathers

13 in di w/6 in appendage

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Artists’s Statement


Over the years my work has gone through many changes as I discovered and experimented with new materials, responded to the process and was inspired with new ideas. My love of Earth is the one constant and remains at the center of all that I do. The materials I work with now are almost all found in nature; from the beeswax and damar crystals I use in my encaustic medium, the cordage I make from various plants, the leaves and seedpods I dry, the dyes I make, the handmade papers and much more including the gourds I grow from seed. Bound to Earth by my passion for it, the awe and reverence I feel is reflected through my work. The intent of each piece is to pass on that vision in the hopes it will spark or reenforce a similar feeling in the person viewing it. I want them to be able to hold a bit of our Earth and wonder at its magnificence.



Artists’s Statement on working with encaustic


I have been making my way towards using only materials found in nature and have gotten one step closer to that goal by introducing encaustic techniques to my gourd work. I make the medium myself from beeswax and damar resin. It takes the place of manmade glues and varnishes and creates a very different look to my gourds. I've also been using natural dyes along with handmade papers for color. Coffee grounds and ground turmeric are examples and aside from the color they produce, you can smell themas well as the beeswax. My work now encompasses three senses; sight, touch and smell. An experience to connect with earth by holding some of it in your hands.



Biography


Kim Grall is an artist working in a diverse array of mediums and techniques, including paper, fiber, leather, photography, printmaking, and pyrography.  Grall’s current work uses gourds as both a sculptural object and as a substrate for the artist’s toolbox of materials.  The gourds Grall uses are grown by the artist, seen through their entire life cycle intentioned to become art.  Through this intimacy with her material Grall finds the inspiration, process, and concept for her work.  The artist sees inspiration from nature in her subjects of the garden lifecycle, using pigmented paper to design and paint both the interiors and exteriors of her work.  The artist’s process finds comparisons with the making of sacred and ceremonial objects in the growing and drying methods used to produce the gourds, techniques of scarring and burning on their surfaces, and the use of vines, beads, feathers and fiber.  Grall’s work presents the concepts of utilitarian objects, made to be sacred objects, and treated as painted sculpture.

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