Who we are
Step into a realm where artistry transcends the ordinary. Immerse yourself in a world of elegance, where every detail is crafted with impeccable precision and unrivaled beauty.
At Rocky Shores Gallery, I bring together the worlds of traditional and digital art, blending impressionist landscapes, abstract forms, and vivid color to create works that inspire and captivate. Each piece reflects a connection to nature, light, and emotion, designed not just to decorate a space, but to transform it.
Whether you are discovering a new original, selecting a framed print, or exploring curated collections, every work is chosen and presented with care to offer a truly premium art experience.
Made in New Zealand with local and sustainable materials
Creative Director and Artist: Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson | New Zealand Abstract Digital Artist
Kim Johnson is a New Zealand-based abstract digital artist whose work explores emotional geography, memory, and the invisible structures that shape human experience.
Working between landscape abstraction and psychological mapping, Kim transforms environmental and internal states into layered visual systems. Her work does not simply depict landscape, it explores the sensation, tension and resonance held within it.
Working primarily in digital painting, she combines layered mark-making, gestural abstraction and structured composition to create work that feels both organic and considered.
Her process is guided by four principles:
Concept · Composition · Colour · Commitment
These form the foundation of each body of work, allowing ideas to develop into connected series rather than isolated artworks.
Cartography of Stillness
Cartography of Stillness explores the idea that stillness is not empty, but densely structured.
The series treats the landscape as an emotional terrain — a place where memory, environmental influence and unseen experience accumulate over time.
Rather than representing literal landscapes, the works suggest hidden geological memory, emotional tension, atmospheric change and the unseen traces held within natural environments.
Each artwork becomes a fragment of a larger, invisible map.
A sense of place
Based in New Zealand, Kim's work is influenced by coastal environments, changing atmospheric conditions and the geological character of Aotearoa.
Her approach is also informed by an understanding of landscape as something more than a passive backdrop — a living record of time, experience and connection.
This influence is structural rather than illustrative, shaping how layers form, dissolve and re-emerge within her compositions.
Kim's practice continues to evolve as an exploration of how abstraction can act as both emotional record and environmental mapping — leaving space for each viewer to form their own interpretation.
Commissions
Some artworks begin with an idea of my own. Others begin with a conversation.
I occasionally create commissioned pieces where the colour, atmosphere or subject has a particular meaning for the person who will live with the work.
A commission might begin with a favourite colour, a place, a memory, or simply a feeling someone wants the artwork to hold.
I don't work from a fixed catalogue of styles. Each piece develops through the same process I use in my other work , exploring composition, colour and atmosphere until the artwork feels right.
A recent commission
This piece was created using a palette of greens chosen to feel comfortable and calming for the person it was made for.
The brief was not about reproducing a particular image. It was about creating an environment through colour, something that could be experienced rather than named.
Every commission is approached as an individual artwork rather than a template, so availability depends on the project and what I'm working on at the time.
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