My best friend, Sue Cameron, and John Monahan, the owner of an exquisitely exclusive art gallery, invited the most important residents of Palm Springs for a private exhibition. Kim explained a few of her paintings to the rapt audience. “What you first see is not necessarily the story,” said Kim. “I always put hidden objects in my paintings and and you need to look at them for a long time to get the messages. My art is everything to me. I rarely have chosen to part with any of my originals. They are my children.”

Kim did sell one of her original oil paintings for $25,000 before she returned home to the Rogue Valley, Oregon.