Kim Foren

Kim Foren is trained as a fine art painter and showed her whimsical oil paintings for sixteen years at Quartersaw Gallery in Portland. Desiring a change in her corporate life, she started selling flowers in 1993 out of her VW van. She named her business Geranium Lake Flowers inspired by her favorite Windsor and Newton oil paint color “Geranium Lake”, a saturated fuchsia pink. Kim Foren she has become one of the premier floral and event companies in the Portland area and has personally appeared on NBC’s TODAY Show.

Kim is dynamic, creative, energetic and in love with her business. She has received Best of Portland awards from Portland Monthly magazine, Portland Bride and Groom, Oregon Bride Magazine and Willamette Weekly. Kim Foren has been touted as “Martha Stewart with an edge” by The Oregonian’s Jonathan Nicholas and the Willamette Weekly claims she “puts a fresh face on floral”. She has also been featured as “Best Wedding Flowers” in Portland by CitySearch.com