Samantha Zim is an illustrator and watercolorist who found her way to landscape artwork via the red desert and passionate community of the Moab Valley.
The chaotic flow of canyon country inspired her to develop a style which celebrates its expressive nature. Her work is informed by her background in medical and scientific illustration, love of comic line art and shin-hanga era woodblock prints.
Samantha primarily uses watercolor, graphite and pen & ink and prefers to focus on places she has visited in person, working both plein air and in the studio from her own source photography.
Exhibitions
Contributor, Arches National Park, Permanent Collection
Featured, Gallery Moab, November 2023
Contributor, The Canyonlands Feild Airport, 2012-2022
Contributor, The Moab Arts and Rec Center, “Climate in Change”, 2021
Featured, Gallery Moab, October 2020
Press/Publications
KZMU Moab- The Great Wide Open, “Arts & Rec with Community Artists in the Parks”, Contributor 2023
The Moab Sun News, “Adapting to the Times”, 2020
The Climbing Zine, “A Use for Fear”, 2020
KZMU Moab- Art Talks, “Creativity, Constraint and Adaptation”, March 2020
Residencies
2020 Artist in the Parks for the Southeast Utah Group of National Parks
Education
2009 Bachelor of Arts in Biomedical Art, Case Western Reserve University
2009 Coursework from the Biomedical Art BFA Program, The Cleveland Institute of Art