She studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, graduating from the oil painting course in 1995,[1] and earning her master's degree in 1997.
[2] Her artwork subject matter is traditional Bijin-ga (literally "beautiful person picture") but rather than depicting women, she instead observes the male figure from the "sexual gaze from a heterosexual female standpoint.
[2] Kimura frequently depicts the motif of ikemen (good-looking men)[4][5] and notes her inspiration from "Johnny's boys", a male entertainment and talent agency famous in Japan.
[6] Though her backgrounds and Nihonga style appear quite conservative and hearken back to Muromachi Period works, her modern human subjects and inversion of the male-gaze from Bijin-ga demonstrate her contemporary influences.
[7] In an essay, Kimura compares the black sumi ink outlines of Nihonga to the thick linework in stained glass windows.