The Blanden Memorial Art Museum announces “Pond Paintings,” a solo exhibition by artist Kim Bromley, on view in the East Gallery from Saturday through April 18.

A public reception will be held from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 21, with an artist talk beginning at 3 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

For more than 15 years, Kim Bromley’s artistic practice has been shaped by the quiet beauty of his rural Minnesota home, set on 20 acres of woods and water. His studio is the landscape itself, where he paints en plein air, capturing shifting light, reflections and seasonal color as they move across an eight-acre pond and surrounding forest.

In 2019, Bromley traveled to France to study the work of Claude Monet and visit his gardens in Giverny. The experience left a lasting imprint on his vision. After two years of reflection, the influence of that journey has begun to emerge vividly in his work. His paintings echo the spirit of the gardens that inspired Monet, reimagined through Bromley’s own lens of color, light, and place.

Each work in “Pond Paintings” blends observation with memory, pairing the rhythms of his Minnesota landscape with the artistic lineage he encountered in France.