About Me

Written and illustrated by me. You can find my book on Amazon.com in paperback or ebook

I was born and raised in Redding,Ct. just outside of New York City. My parents were commercial artists, known as Graphic artists today, so I was lucky enough to have art and culture all around me at a very early age. I was a published illustrator by the age of 8 years old. Around that same period of my life, my parents were taking me to the local ice skating rink for skating lessons. By age 9, and for the next 10 years competitive figure skating became my focus. My  goal was to compete in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, but injury struck me and being burnt out by stress of competition I turned pro. For the next 15 years I was a lead skater in the world of ice shows. Including City Light where I starred for 7 years at the Flamingo Hilton on the Las Vegas Strip. When I retired, I transferred my talents from on stage to back stage working with amazing Cirque Du Soleil. Through all of that, I decided to pick up a paint brush and return to my roots of art. With lots of hard work, I began to show my paintings, and since then my work has been shown across the country. I have had a one woman show, called The Skaters Waltz, at my home gallery featuring my paintings related to figure skating. I also most recently have written, illustrated and published through my own publishing company, Antiquemoon Press, called: "Ela The Fancy Skater". A story of a lovely Yellow Elephant, who loves to skate with her best friend Mouse. Thank you for taking the time to read all about me. I hope you enjoy my web sight. I will be starting a weekly blog of my goings on. Until then, you can find me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and coming soon, Etsy.  Please sign up to my web sight to hear the lasted adventures of Kim Reale

My work covers a wide variety of subjects. skating of course is among my favorites being a figure skater myself. This is a painting of the legendary pair team Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner