Connie Kirk's painting is about passion, unbounded expression, color and, most of all, paint. She is equally adept with landscapes, figures and still lifes, but all of her work is fresh and new. She is both a plein air painter as well as a studio painter, but the object is not to capture a scene as it appears to the naked eye, but rather to create a painting that expresses how she feels about the subject. Her passion comes from her inner-self and explodes onto the canvas. Her concerns are: how can I express how I feel about this scene and how does the paint interact with the canvas? She is an "expressionist" rather than an impressionist.