Artist Bio

Kim Guzzone Collier is a Florida painter who graduated from Florida State University in textile design but soon turned to painting to create artwork that documents the natural world with emphasis on color and pattern. She was chosen by Florida Craft Art to be A New Face For a New Decade. She won and attended a residency in Colorado Springs, Colorado sponsored by the Marie Wash Sharpe Art Foundation. Her work is in the collection of the City of Orlando, Florida. She was a featured artist at Florida State College Wilson Center for the Arts, had a solo show at the Beaches Fine Art Series, and she exhibited at First Coast Portfolio at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, all in Jacksonville, Florida. Outside of Florida, KGC’s artwork has shown in High on Fiber in Mesa, Arizona, The Electronic Gallery, Los Angeles, California and in the Three Rivers Art Festival in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. She travels abroad to hike and to paint in plein air. For the last two years, she attended Louise Freshmen Brown’s media workshops in Europe. She actively participates with North Florida Plein Air Painters and for the last three years, KGC has been a working artist and board member at Cork Art Studios in Jacksonville where she maintains a studio, shows and sells her paintings.