Influenced by nature, poetry and music, and working out a love of material, Kim Kopp combines drawing and painting with borrowed techniques from printmaking and bookbinding. She often uses many layers of paper and paint to give a physical structure to her paintings-sometimes working on both sides of a paper layer to allow discarded or faint images to emerge as shadows. By glazing with paints and inks and by sprinkling dry pigments from salt cellars, Kopp creates subtle surface echoes of color and shade. Through the use of abstraction, color, invented symbols and shapes, she records impressions of light, sound, weather and seasons, natural or man-made structures. Suggesting time and tide's transient nature, Kopp confesses to using erasers as often as brushes, pens or fingers to take away in one spot only to add back in another.