ABOUT KIMBERLEE

Kimberlee attended the Oregon College of Arts and Craft, where she studied ceramics. She, her sister Sally DuBose and their mother, fine arts painter B. Jeanne Graham, co-founded The Northeast Pot Shop and Gallery in Portland’s Alameda District. Kimberlee and Sally taught ceramics, while their mother helped fill the gallery with her expressive paintings, creating a vibrant, family-run creative hub in the late 70's.

Creativity is deeply rooted on both sides of her family. Her paternal grandfather, Julian P. Graham, was a celebrated photographer in Carmel, California. Renowned for his legacy, Graham captured iconic images for publications such as Life and National Geographic, and was the resident photographer at Pebble Beach Golf Course in the later years of his career. His remarkable body of work, chronicling the history and leisure of the Monterey Peninsula from 1924 to 1963, is part of her own family heritage. To view his extraordinary photography from this period, visit loonhill.com

Kimberlee ventured into visual storying telling. Designing award winning displays and fashion windows for Nordstrom for six years. Clark College and Portland Community College invited her to teach classes on visual merchandising and display design. She very much enjoyed teaching and taught for three years.

Kimberlee soon became a sought after interior designer. Her intuitive approach, helped her craft not only beautiful but deeply personal interiors. She has been a prominent residential interior designer for more than 25 years working in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Portola Valley, California, Reno Nevada, Austin Texas, Stuttgart Germany, Lake Oswego, Portland, Oregon and Vancouver Washington.

While still working as an interior designer, Kimberlee's mother insisted she learn realism before embarking on her first love-abstract painting. And in 1999 started classes from Phil Sylvester at his independant art school The Drawing Studio. She also attended drawing classes at Oregon College of Arts and Craft. Along with many private classes with her fine arts painter mother. She found her studies in realism to be a valuable tool for abstract painting. Transitioning out of interior design in 2022 into full time painting, was a natural evolution for Kimberlee, another way to shape environments that soothe, uplift, and inspire.

Kimberlee's fascination with vibrant color deepened through experience with family members navigating seasonal affective disorder. She became increasingly aware of colors ability to influence mood and well-being, to act as quiet therapy in a noisy world. As a color field painter, color becomes the subject. Each piece is an invitation to pause-feel-breathe.

She resides with her husband, musician Mark Weaver in Saint Helens, Oregon and Yucca Valley, California. Both of these environments deeply influence her work. Some of the Artists that have inspired Kimberlee are Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Helen Frankenthaler. She works with brushes, palette knives, and other tools to build rich layers of pigment and texture across canvas and wood. Each piece is designed to evoke an emotional resonance as much as a visual experience.

10% of proceeds go to charities.

Kimberlee has dedicated her time and resources to:

Dress for Success (20 years)

Operation Night Watch (3 Years)

Start Making a Reader Today (1 year)

Rotary Club ( 4 years)