PAINT

Karen’s paintings are naturalistic, colorful, and large enough to show nature’s moods and scope.  She often emphasizes how light plays on various surfaces, how color may vary from what is expected, and how illuminated objects contrast with shadows.

GLASS

Karen’s glass is abstract, reflecting the basic attributes of a scene – patterns, movement, or objects in concert with one another.  She often combines transparent and opaque glass to achieve contrast, and often fire glass in ways that maintain texture.

CLAY

Karen’s clay work is earthy in texture and color, bringing focus to nature’s fundamental structure, what lies beneath or supersedes mood, color and pattern.  She often incorporates texture made by her hands, natural objects, or clay-working tools.

CLUSTERS

Karen’s signature pieces are art clusters of complementary works in different media that capture a landscape from two or three different frames of reference.  Painting captures beauty, color, and shadow; fused glass captures strong vertical and horizontal lines and shapes; clay captures structure and mass.  Although pieces in a cluster complement one another, each individual piece remains unique and has its own independent story.