Excerpts from:
the PAPER,  June 2002
Paint like her, Artist's canvasses reflect the creator
by David and Mary Verzi

…Feminine archetypes spring from the earth, rocks, and trees", said Saul.  At her easel, working from photographs and her memory, Saul incorporates images for fine-featured modern models with the potent spirit of her imagined, untamed, forest found prototypes.

...Though occasionally using watercolors, Saul usually paints in warm, soft-toned acrylics glazed with vibrant oils, yielding fragile gut full-blooded femininity, both sweet and strong.  Saul's tender tough nature and the mild-wild breeding of her debutantes is reminiscent of the Anglo-Italian, Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82).

...Of unsettled personal sensibilities, Rossetti, inspired by legendary  goddesses, reflected his complexity in depicting women who were romantically delicate and, simultaneously, mystically robust.

...Since Saul has instinctively mated fairytale illustration with that which examines the ancient female psyche, it is no wonder she and her women seem ready to run with both the wolves and Little Red Riding Hoods.

Excerpts from:
The Country and Abroad, November 2004
Artists and Artisans - Avian Art by Elizabeth Potter

Kim Saul, of Glendale, MA, just outside of Stockbridge, specializes in totemic bird paintings, many of which are painted in acrylic on gessoed paper. One of her series, which includes a Dove, Hawk and Owl, speaks of the intrinsic powers of these individual birds: the dove is a symbol of peace and has a tear in her eye as she is a maternal energy; the Owl placed in between the Dove and Hawk represents a balancing spirit, using wisdom to confront the viewer; the Hawk possesses vision, with an ability to see far into the distance and to better determine the correct actions to take.One of her paintings, a study of a White Heron standing in water is aptly called Reflection. Saul also has created a Grackle Triptych; each panel is 12 x 12 in and is painted in acrylic. Saul's illustration in pencil on gessoed board, which shows a woman holding a raven is titled Grace, and was recently published in SageWoman Magazine. Kim Saul graduated from the Univ. of Massachusetts, and has recently exhibited her work in galleries in New York City, Boston, Williamstown, Lenox and St. Louis.