Kim Booker (b. 1983)

Working with acrylic on large canvases, British artist Kim Booker uses colour, gesture and figure to express the psychology of the female experience. Her semi-autobiographical paintings, created intuitively through a combination of gestural abstraction and layers of drawn imagery, often feature figures in poses that are suggestive of differing emotional states. Elements are scrubbed out, obscured and painted over, with dynamic strokes and scrawls of colour reflecting both the physicality of painting and the artist’s emotions and self-censorship. While rooted in modern styles, Booker’s work displays influences of German Expressionism, idiosyncratic British paintings (such as the work of Roy Oxlade) and American abstract expressionism. These influences are all combined with a contemporary perspective on identity and relationships. 

Booker completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2019, and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including South Korea, Paris and Barcelona.