Fife artist hopes crowd-funding can kickstart art career
ByThe Courier Reporter
Kim Nisbet at home in Ladybank with some of her artwork.
A Ladybank woman has launched a crowd- funding project to boost her new career as an artist.
Kim Nisbet, 36, is hoping the campaign will help get her Celtic-inspired paintings into local galleries and pay for some professional photographs of the artwork.
She said: “I am trying to get my business off the ground and I hope the campaign will help. I also want to help promote Scottish art, too.
“In the days of Celtic art, they used to use other Celtic artists as inspiration. It is nice to feel part of a tradition. I’m part of something; I’m continuing on from something that has gone on long before. My art is my interpretation of an older work.”
Kim has spent the last year creating a collection of 12 acrylic paintings which put a colourful and vibrant twist on her Celtic theme, as well as six smaller works which she painted specifically to be used as rewards in her crowd-funding campaign.
“I used to work in the service industry doing housekeeping, being a chef but it was never career jobs.”
Kim’s campaign on www.Kickstarter.com can be found by searching ‘Kim’s Celtic Art’.
Fife artist hopes crowd-funding can kickstart art career
