KM Schon’s muse lives and breathes in the Southwest Ohio deciduous forest. Transforming with each moment and throughout each season, the forest's embrace remains her constant and treasured companion.

KM’s 5-year professional architecture degree included nearly a year's immersion in the living art and architecture of Italy.  Understandably, many of her earlier paintings represented the landscape in a nearly architectural fashion.  These 'tree spirit' paintings could best be described as expressive sections and elevations that allow peek-a-boo views of the richly layered forest beyond.  

More recently, her muse has begun leading her both physically and artistically from the edge of the forest into the woods.  During meditative walks, she will pause, sit, and sketch the plants and trees that greet her there.  Simple botanical studies and color matching of natural elements enrich this experience.  These forest visits expand the love that KM has long felt for plant-life and these feelings of tenderness become infused in her work.

While the unique vantage point that allowed for a clear view of the forest's edge required a certain distance from it, KM Schon’s more recent paintings are growing more intimate.  The once illusive separation has begun to dissolve.  As if standing before a sheet of glass that has suddenly transformed into a delicate waterfall, ‘Grace’ reaches through and gently guides her... layer by layer into something new.