ARtist Bio

Kymberlee Stanley was born and raised in Southern California. Throughout her life, Laguna Beach’s rocky coastline and eucalyptus-lined canyon roads have been her muse, and the color of the coast has been her palette. She first moved to Nashville in 2012 with her husband and daughter, and began painting at age 46 to cure her California coast “homesickness”and to fill her new Nashville home with images of the coast. Kymberlee is a contemporary impressionist, and loves bold, clean brushwork that tells stories of the land and sea and almost always includes her signature red-orange palette.

Kymberlee’s first exposure to oil painting was a painting class her mother enrolled her in at the age of 16 at a local hardware store. Kymberlee attended Biola University as an art major her freshman year, and later graduated from California State University Long Beach with a degree in Liberal Arts with an art credential. For ten years she worked as an elementary teacher, and then earned her Masters in Social Work from the University of Southern California and became a licensed clinical social worker/psychotherapist. She now works part-time in private practice utilizing therapeutic arts in her Nashville studio.

 Many of her pieces were juried into shows through the Artist Alliance at the Oceanside Museum of Art, and the Laguna Beach Plein Air Association. In August 2021, she was selected as the Featured Artist for the Catalina Island Art Festival, was highlighted in interviews by the Catalina Island Museum, and was featured in many local Catalina Islander articles.

In the Fall of 2022, after three years on Catalina island, Kymberlee moved back to Nashville for her daughter’s schooling, and became a bi-coastal artist - opening her new studio, “Garibaldi Studio Gallery” in Dana Point, CA, and re-opened her studio in Nashville.