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BY GERALD OCHS
Rappahannock News Writer
If you combine creativity, technical and artistic abilities, joie de vivre and foresight you get Kim Rice.
Educated and trained in the fine arts, Rice has spend a decade in the county dancing, painting, ' creating costumes and, generally speaking, offering her talent to a everwidening group of fortunate locals and visitors.
Rice's latest endeavor affords us a greater opportunity to see, up close, the fruit of her talents. She has, with husband Rick's help, recycled an old cabin on the former Country Manor property (on US 211 west of Sperryville) to create a unique and cozy little nest of a studio to display her mixed-media artwork and, in a nearby building, her extraordinary line of recycled and remanufactured clothing.
Rice’s studio has provided her with a showcase and an outlet for her first love— painting. Her paintings, though, are not necessarily conventional. Rice rarely uses canvas on which to express herself but, like much that she does, paints on and adds "found objects" to create mixed-media artwork that is strikingly singular.
"In this culture," she remarked, "we throw away everything. I like to work on things I find ... to put things together." "Shipwrecked #1," for example, was painted on a coffee table top. When Rice saw the coffee table in a local dumpster, she said that she saw waves—and it became a tribute to her cousin Ralph, a Maine lobsterman who was lost in a storm at sea.
"Shipwrecked #1" is even more remarkable because she painted Ralph in a dory instead of in the lobster boat that he usually fished from, but later found that he was in a dory when he was lost. This painting is typical of Rice's work—she has applied netting and other objects that evoke the feel of the sea and draw the observer into the painting itself, where the terror of the ocean's anger and the mournfulness of the
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