{"id":5072,"date":"2013-03-28T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:25:35","slug":"kim-westfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/kim-westfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Kim Westfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/kim-westfall\/kimwestfall1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,616\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kimwestfall1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall1-243x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5074\" alt=\"kimwestfall1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall1-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The paintings of <a href=\"http:\/\/westfalleast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Westfall<\/a> are just superb and her tumblr page is teeming with them. I just love irregular paper canvases. The quality of her work is so painterly and textural and abstract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5075\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/kim-westfall\/kimwestfall2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,620\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kimwestfall2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall2-241x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5075\" alt=\"kimwestfall2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall2-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/kim-westfall\/kimwestfall\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,663\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kimwestfall\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall-226x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5073\" alt=\"kimwestfall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5078\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/kim-westfall\/kimwestfall5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,591\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kimwestfall5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall5-253x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall5.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5078\" alt=\"kimwestfall5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall5-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5076\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/kim-westfall\/kimwestfall3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,585\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kimwestfall3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall3-256x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall3.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5076\" alt=\"kimwestfall3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall3-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5077\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/kim-westfall\/kimwestfall4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,681\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kimwestfall4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall4-220x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall4.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5077\" alt=\"kimwestfall4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kimwestfall4-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paintings of Kim Westfall are just superb and her tumblr page is teeming with them. I just love irregular paper canvases. The quality of her work is so painterly and textural and abstract.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[37,125,852,1868],"class_list":["post-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-kim-westfall","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1jO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5661,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/yina-kim\/","url_meta":{"origin":5072,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Yina Kim","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Secret Knots is a series from illustrator Yina Kim. In this series, Yina creates portraits of strangers whom she studies in public spaces, giving each a tagline describing their imaginary lives. Although Yina does not know any of her subjects personally, she feels that unconsciously we all are connected\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/artist\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/timothy-yinakim.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3149,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/kim-holtermand\/","url_meta":{"origin":5072,"position":1},"title":"Photographer: Kim H\u00f8ltermand","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"December 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone up for a trip to Iceland? 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