Kim Wagner-Langdown

Artist

📍 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Kim Wagner-Langdown is a South African visual artist whose work bridges realism and expressionism through the human form. She combines anatomical precision with emotive distortion and abstract colour to translate internal psychological states into visible presence. Non-naturalistic hues and layered mark-making interrupt realistic structure, creating tension between vulnerability and strength. Faces and bodies are often partially obscured or fragmented, reflecting themes of identity, resilience, memory, and transformation. Her paintings inhabit intimate spaces where realism anchors the figure and abstraction reveals emotional depth.