Dark Horse by G Kim Hinkson, mixed media abstract artwork with layered earth-toned textures and a quiet, meditative atmosphere

Artwork Description

Dark Horse is a contemplative mixed media work that explores hidden strength, restraint, and quiet resilience. The surface is built through layered textures and muted earth tones, creating a weathered, almost archaeological presence. Forms emerge and recede beneath the surface, suggesting something powerful held in suspension rather than fully revealed.

Created through an intuitive and meditative process, the artist allowed material and time to shape the work organically. Spiritually, Dark Horse reflects the idea of unseen potential—the force that exists beneath silence and stillness. It speaks to endurance without display, to power that does not announce itself, and to transformation that unfolds gradually through patience and inner resolve.

Framed Size: 26 × 26 in
Signature: Artist signed on verso
COA: Gallery Letter of Authenticity included

Dark Horse

Name: Vancouver Fine Art Gallery
Address: 2233 Granville St, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3G1, CA
Telephone: 778-737-9888

ByG Kim Hinkson

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Mixed Media on Canvas, 2018

24 x 24 in | 61 x 61 cm

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Artist Biography

After many years of independently evolving his craft, Kim is ready to share his art with the world. These bold, organic, creations evoke the beauty, power and inspiration of nature – raw and ready for discovery. Built up by hand and with no paintbrushes or knives, he layers colours on wet canvas and manipulates paint by “washing” it off. Occasionally, sand (and in his most recent works, coffee grounds) are incorporated.

G Kim Hinkson as President and founder of Ocean West Financial Group, GK Hinkson’s life changed course on a business flight home. G Kim Hinkson re-watched a film he’d seen before, the 2000 biopic Pollock, about the modern American painter. Hinkson said, “By the time I’d gotten halfway through that movie, I was so pumped, all I could think about was how I was going to get my assistant to find me a studio.”

After many years of independently evolving his craft, Kim is ready to share his art with the world. These bold, organic, creations evoke the beauty, power and inspiration of nature – raw and ready for discovery.

Built up by hand and with no paintbrushes or knives, he layers colours on wet canvas and manipulates paint by “washing” it off. Occasionally, sand (and in his most recent works, coffee grounds) are incorporated.

The result is soothing but with an underlying tension not unlike a naturalized version of the marble paper flyleaf of an antique book.

2018 has seen his work exhibited in Vienna, Montreux and later in the year it will be at Art Basel in Switzerland. Hinkson is also launching an offshoot line of men’s dress socks and a sports clothing line incorporating his designs.

“Painting is therapeutic, I love that vortex — the singular focus on the artistic process. When I’m painting everything else just disappears.”

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