Kirk Hinshaw

A Charmed Life
18″x22″; paper; 2012

Kirk Hinshaw
Sonoma, California, USA

STATEMENT

I live within the ancient tradition:
the artist as mountain recluse,
withdrawn and hidden,
a life of genteel poverty,
a quiet life of meditation,

which gives me lots of time
to gnash my teeth and worry over
how I want my art
to be known by everyone,
have admirers everywhere
and have lots of money!

(altered) poem “In The Ancient Tradition” from Moment to Moment by David Budbill
(Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1999)

BIO

Kirk Hinshaw has been creating art since he was a child of the 1940s in rural North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. Additional studies include the San Francisco Art Institute and University of California, San Francisco.

Kirk’s art work has garnered numerous awards, been exhibited throughout the US and is currently in private collections on both coasts and in Europe.

For over 20 years, he lived on and cared for a 235-acre ranch on Sonoma Mountain.

ARTIST CONTACT

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IMAGES

Amsterdam
20″x16″; paper; 2010

Chance Encounters
30″x24″; paper; 2015

Temporary Transformations
42″x42″; paper; 2009

Daddy’s Little Girl
30″x36″; paper on canvas; 2010