Raised in a log cabin in the woods, Kim Ferreira now lives in Portsmouth, NH, a lovely little city by the sea. Her winding path as an artist began with a B.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire. Soon after, she opened an art gallery which she owned and operated for ten years. After becoming a mother in 2017, Kim’s focus in painting shifted from quirky self-portraits to anthropomorphic woodland animals against a backdrop nodding to french rococo landscapes. Her work is inspired by simple pleasures and the exuberant enjoyment of life, what the French refer to as “joie de vivre”.