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"You did a great job Kim- You really captured our likenesses. You're a talented painter. This means a lot to me. Thanks!"

Mike Myers
Actor, Writer, "Austin Powers"
Los Angeles

Untitled (Mike Myers and David Mackenzie)
Mixed media: Acrylic on canvas with human hair wigs, and magnets
48"x 36"

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"This portrait is sooo beautiful! When I brought it home, all I kept thinking about was how I will leave it to my children one day. I feel a little like I have just been canonized! I will always cherish it."

Monica Peets
Toronto

Untitled (Monica Peets)
Oil on canvas
18" x 24"

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"It's one of my favorite things."

Moses Znaimer
Executive Producer; Bravo!, Star!TV, City TV, Much Music

Untitled (Moses Znaimer)
Mixed Media - TV, VCR, acrylic, fabric, battery powered light.
21" x 26" x 38"

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"My wife Agnieszka has been virtually replicated in beauty and warmth, by Kim's magnificent painting. I fall in love again at each passing glance."

Clifford L. Werber
President, Sirius Entertainment
Producer, "Braveheart"
Los Angeles

Untitled (Agnieszka)
Oil on canvas
26" x 22"

"You have a gift of showing your subjects in many different backgrounds and environments, reflecting their own deeply involved activities combined with excellent details of their physical likeness. I was quite impressed by this combination, and believe you are reaching a really novel and fascinating stage of portrait painting.

Wishing you continued success. Many thanks."

Walter Carsen
Philanthropist
Recipient, Order of Canada

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"I think you captured our son beautifully. His vibrant personality shines through your painting. It is as if he is staring at us in person. We love the painting, and everyone we have shown it to, has been blown away by it. It's a remarkable work, and a testament to your great artistic skill. Thanks again."

David Hubband
Writer
Recipient, Gemini Award
Toronto

Eddie's Pond (Eddie Hubband)
Oil on canvas
54" x 30"

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"It's Thursday morning. I'm sitting in my dining room looking at your incredible paintings and listening to Logan's fabulous CD. I'm still crying with joy and gratitude! You are both so very talented."

Ursula Brown
Calgary

Untitled (Ursula, Eric and Roger Brown)
Oil on canvas
Each 16" x 20"

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"When my husband told me that he wanted a portrait of me, I was somewhat embarrassed and taken aback. It is quite different than having photographs of yourself because with photographs you can always throw them away. My first thoughts were, what if she captures my bad features. Oh no! I certainly did not want to have that staring at me from my living room each day.

When I saw the portrait, all my fears vanished. Kim had portrayed me in a way that made me feel special. My husband says that it is beautiful and captures my very essence. He may be somewhat biased, but that's OK by me.

Kim is truly gifted. She uses her insight and intelligence to recreate the essence of her subjects in her unique and artistic way."

Mrs. Maryann Arthur
Toronto

Untitled (Maryann Arthur)
Oil on canvas
56" x 36"

"What a wonder you are - from your bold, playful and illuminating work as a portrait artist, to the way you can deep fry a turkey! It has been a pleasure to experience the work of such a talented artist and friend."

Roger Honneywell
Tenor, Chicago Opera

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"Kim possesses the unique ability to capture a piece of someone's essence, like a photographer captures light. After seeing many of Kim's previous portraits, I knew that I should give her free reign while painting mine. I get a great sense of peace and, in a way that's hard to explain, security when I look at my portrait. To this day, I have not seen any portraiture that is as complete, as full of soul as Kim's is."

Patrick Brown,
Shaw Festival Company

Untitled (Patrick Brown)
Oil on canvas
52" x 46"

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"Kim Van Stygeren Medland's portrait of my son Ivan captures his essence - his stance and attitude, his wariness and warmth. It also illuminates the experience of a very young child starting to come to terms with an entirely new world, one that is by turns terrifying and wonderful, and always overwhelming. Ivan was young enough at the time that he will never have a conscious memory of what Kim turned into art. Yet she has preserved and transformed his experience into something irreducibly human and somehow otherworldly - for Ivan, for his parents, forever."

Adam Liptak
Senior Counsel
The New York Times Company
Legal Department

Untitled (Ivan Liptak)
Acrylic on canvas
24" x 18"

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Untitled (Dave Grierson)
Mixed media - Acrylic on cowhide, beech wood, hemp rope, steel grommetts
48" x 60"

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"Kim painted my portrait during my 25th year. It now hangs as a reminder of a time of great joy and discovery in my life. So much was in flux and Kim seemed to capture the motion and propulsion of my spirit - everyone who sees the portrait marvels at how my essence is captured so accurately, a physical snapshot in time. I love it and cherish it - it's the first thing on my rescue list in case of fire.

I feel privileged to have worked with Kim and hope to have her paint me again, older, wiser, still in motion."

Stephanie Belding
Actor, Singer, Songwriter

Untitled (Stephanie Belding)
Mixed media - Acrylic and objects on trunk lid
21" x 10" x 4"

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"How we love this painting! Kim, you captured Eddie so beautifully that I want to cry when I look at it. I am so thrilled that we have this moment forever in such magnificent detail. All that have seen it, who have known Eddie for longer than your hours with him, comment over and over at how you "got" Eddie. Thank you for your time and artistry that are so clear in this extraordinary work."

Christina Collins
Actor

Eddie's Pond (Eddie Hubband)
Oil on canvas
54" x 30"

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"Thank you for those wonderful portraits of Steve and I. It's like you've known us for all our lives! They are truly remarkable pieces of art.

P.S. We can't wait for you to do a portrait of our children!"

Mrs. S. Myers
Sydney, Australia

Untitled (Steve Myers)
Acrylic on canvas

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"To see oneself on canvas- viewing the world from a new angle, floating yet grounded, a carefree toss of the head, at peace yet curious - only an extraordinary, tuned in artist could capture all this. It goes without saying, I love it, as do the many that have seen it."

Jane Johanson
Choreographer

Toronto

Untitled (Jane Johanson)
Acrylic on canvas
42" x 28"

"I love your portraits. For me, they reveal the true soul of the individual. You intuitivley know what makes a person tick and what their eyes are saying. You paint with great depth and emotion, but with a keen sense of humour as well. Above all you are very honest, and capture the moment with a graceful, subtle brush. I feel honoured to have a portrait painted by you."

Anne Baggley
Actor
Chicago