Deep Impressions

Peter Rowlands · Issue 63, Nov/Dec 2011 · pp. 67–71

When I moved down to Plymouth in the southwest of the UK a few years ago I started getting my tanks filled at Sound Diving and that is where I first met Kim Vaudin. She worked there part time (and still does) but it was not until quite some time later that I discovered her other side – as an extremely accomplished artist and part of a duo with her mother Kay. Plymouth born and bred, Kim was brought up in a diving family but found her first attempts at underwater photography disappointing so she decided to use her artistic talents to take control of the image making process by producing underwater scenes with acrylic paints rather than pixels and she persuaded her mum to team up with her. The work of Australian artist David Stacey was a major influence and she wanted to depict underwater scenes from British waters initially. The use of acrylic paints enables them to achieve the delicate b…