Wonder Woman in Business, Mary Kimber

Mary Kimber is [a TOTALLY AWESOME HUMAN BEING — my insert] an entrepreneur and business owner, living and working in the mountains of southern Colorado. After working inside of law firms for nearly 40 years, she started her consulting company, Fort Kimber Partners, in 2014, providing marketing and business development strategies to lawyers and law firms. Mary also has a thriving art business, selling her watercolors and doing commissions via her web site, marykimber.com. Growing up in Montana, Mary was surrounded by mountains, fields, wildlife and nature. One of five siblings in a boisterous, political family, her family encouraged self-expression and the family learned to speak up for and defend arguments over the day’s news at the family dinner table. Mary studied art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for two years, and transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After graduation, like many artists, a lifestyle was difficult to maintain without an income! Mary was fortunate to find a second career that allowed some creativity, in a more traditional setting, and she became a Marketing Director for large law firms. After a long career in the legal industry, Mary recently returned to painting from her home in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Mary is married to Miles and they have two daughters and a granddaughter – the joys of their lives! They taught their children, from an early age, to love reading, fishing, skiing, swimming, hiking and camping. Most importantly, along with an appreciation of nature and all of its bounty, they taught them to engage in the arts via music, theater, writing or other pursuits. Even though their daughters are grown and living in other states, they enjoy the family home, “Fort Kimber” and visit as often as possible. Living in the mountains above Colorado’s San Luis Valley has afforded Mary the opportunity to participate in community art shows, such as the Monte Vista Crane Festival, as well as public art projects, notably, the 2019 Swoop of the Cranes. Her cards are for sale at the Narrow Gauge Bookstore Cooperative, in Alamosa, Colorado, where she has twice exhibited her paintings as their artist of the month. Her art has been published in the Conejos Writer’s Circle books in 2018 and 2019, as well as the on-line art and writing blog, Monologging. Mary believes that painting is a constantly evolving endeavor. While she primarily work in watercolor, she also uses charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, and in recent years, has been involved in printmaking.