Blue Forest Painting

Chicago-based Karen uses unconventional tools and atypical expressions to convey the emotional poetry within her. Whether it’s her modern abstract acrylic paintings or her alcohol ink on Yupo, she explores both the subtle and sublime, texture and movement, stretching across the tonal and color palates of both her paint and her heart. In a way, her work is a form outsider art, expressed conventionally. Relying seldom on a brush, Karen’s tools encompass found implements around her studio and home. From take-out chopsticks to plastic forks to a shower squeegee, she applies, she layers, she blends, she manipulates, always translating inspiration in real-time on the canvas. Karen’s commissioned paintings now hang in locations across the country including, Jackson, WY, Park City, UT, Santa Clara, CA, West Hollywood, CA, Orange, CA and Chicago.