Artwork Description

Forbidden is a contemplative mixed media work that explores tension, restraint, and the presence of boundaries—both internal and external. Layers of earthy greens, muted ochres, and weathered textures form a surface that feels guarded and unsettled, as if something has been concealed, interrupted, or deliberately withheld. Fragmented forms emerge but never fully resolve, reinforcing a sense of limitation and quiet resistance.

Created through an intuitive and meditative process, the artist allowed material, erosion, and time to guide the composition. Spiritually, Forbidden reflects the human experience of encountering thresholds—what cannot be crossed, spoken, or possessed. The work speaks to desire held in suspension, to moments where restriction becomes a space for reflection, and where stillness carries its own quiet intensity.

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

Forbidden

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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