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Kim Donnet

Ceramics and Mixed Media

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Bio

Kim Donnet is a multidisciplinary artist working in porcelain and oil paint. Her work explores the quiet tension between the graphic and the organic—each piece shaped by hand, intuition, and memory.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Donnet creates in small batches from her one-woman studio. Whether making functional ceramics or layered oil paintings, she is drawn to pattern, texture, and form as ways of holding experience. Her pieces invite not just looking, but touching—designed to be lived with, returned to, and felt.

 

Artist Statement

I make things slowly.

My ceramic work begins with the body—how a piece feels in the hand, the sound it makes when set down, the quiet texture against the fingertips. I work almost exclusively in porcelain, drawn to its crispness and delicacy. Many of my forms are functional—mugs, vases, platters—but each is sculptural in its own right, holding visual contrast and subtle pattern.

My paintings echo this tactile language. Built in layers, they explore memory and the organic through repeated marks, gestural forms, and shifts in clarity. Pattern is a way for me to track time and emotion—less as decoration, more as record.

Balancing motherhood and art-making means my time is limited. Stepping into my studio stops time and in that slowness, I find presence. This rhythm shapes the work itself: quiet, intentional, intimate.

I hope the pieces I make carry that presence into the lives of those who use or live with them—offering a moment of touch, recognition, or simply quiet joy.

 
Orange strips taking up space in the best way. 

Come see some of my new work in person during NW Marine Art Works Summer Open studio. May 31st + Sunday June 1st, 10am-4pm @nwmarineartworks 
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Save the date for our Summer Open Studios! Saturday May 31st + Sunday June 1st, 10am-4pm. 💚
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Wow, just wow! Huge thanks to all who visited my studio this past Saturday during NW Marine Art Works open studios (@nwmarine )! I’m still reveling the in outpouring of love and support from old friends and new. ❤️ Thank you Portland! Juicy ima
Witchy little ring holder.
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