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Karen at Awards Ceremony with Abiquiu Cliffs Abstraction Painting

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Judge Qiang Huang's comment on the painting: "This painting is unique. The asymmetric color shapes are on top of a symmetric geometrical pattern, showing a mathematical beauty."

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2024 Winter Holiday Show and Opening at the Karen Wray Gallery

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Karen at the Karen Wray Gallery November 2024

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New paintings at the gallery, ready for the Winter Holiday Show Opening Reccption on Friday, Dec 6

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Sept 2024 Plein Air Magazine Article with Turbulent Lands' Image

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Bob Bahr's article in the Sept issue of PAM on the "Science of Beauty" had a nice spread of my painting, Turbulent Lands. The article has examples of artists using Dynamic Symmetry (including yours truly).

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2024 Halbert Plein Air Magazine

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Karen at the Karen Wray Gallery

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Enjoying the Spring Group Show at the Karen Wray Gallery (2024).

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May 12. Santa Fe River Harmony 80 Percent

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NFS (yet)

First painting in the Paint New Mexico Paint Out and Show. Painted in the early morning of May 12, Sunday, Mothers' Day. a bright and sunny day, even at the time. 40 degrees but dressed warmly it was fine.

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Painting at the Edge

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What csn be better than painting outdoors overlooking nature's beauty?

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Studio as of Sept 2023

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The studio as it appeared during the Labor Day (2023) tour. It probably won't look this good again. But I hope to keep it this way for awhile at least (especially for company coming in late October).

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Studio at Night Time

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Part of the studio after a busy studio tour Labor Day weekend 2023.

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Studio Tour

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Studio as of Aug 2023

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Studio in progress. This image will be updated just before the tour begins on Sept 2.

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Radical Impressionist: A Mathematician Paints. Fuller Lodge Art Center Exhibit

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Exhibit at the Fuller Lodge Art Center in Los Alamos.
June 30 - Aug 2, 2023
Landscape Paintings with Armatures
Radical Impressionist Exhibit.

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Karen at her Studio Easel

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Studio

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Santa Fe Studio Wall 1

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Karen's Santa Fe Studio

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My Santa Fe Indoor Studio almost ready to show to the public. Note the “workstations”: easel, graphics and drawing table ( built by my son many years ago), couch and bookcase for reading my art and math books, framing counter and cleanup area and computer desk.

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Santa Fe Studio Wall 2

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Santa Fe Studio Wall 3

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Santa Fe Studio Wall 4

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Studio nearing readiness to be shown to the public.

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Halbert Flyer - 2022 LCCF

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Watch for 2023 Announcement. Annual event in Las Campanas. After three years without this event due to Covid, we returned. The show is a gala event. In 2022 I demonstrated out on the patio and thoroughly enjoyed this. Flyer created by Las Campanas member, Susan Robeck, to be used as publicity for this 2022 Las Campanas Community Fund auction and perhaps the 2023 event

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In my San Diego Studio (WInter 2022)

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I am enjoying the use of a sunporch as my studio in my airbnb near my son's house in San Diego. Concentrating on watercolor for now, but I do have my Cobra water based oils in my car if needed.

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Golden Cottonwoods, Galisteo Painting with Buyers

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An early sale from my studio:, chosen by this wonderful couple from Arkansas on one of their frequent visits to New Mexico @2014

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Karen at the PAPNM 2021 Juried Show with Collector

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At the opening reception for the 2021 Plein Air Painters of NM National Juried Exhibition: Awakening and Southwest Layers were both painted "en plein air" in Arizona during the pandemic.

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Karen in the Aspens

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Painting at the Santa Fe Ski Slope during Aspen Season., Oct 2021. A nice woman wanted to take a photo so I asked her if she would take one with my iphone for me. Painting here inspired me to do a couple of paintings with more in my head, ready to begin.

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The Conductor

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Painting at the Diablo Canyon during the 2018 Santa Fe Plein Air FIesta

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At the North Shore

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Karen at the North Shore of Oahu at the Turtle Bay Hotel. I am beginning to dream about going back after the memorable 2016 trip. I love the childhood home of my heart - during my teenage years.

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Painting at the Santa Fe River

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Painting at the Santa Fe River, a favorite venue when the river is flowing, a rare occurrence.

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Montage of Karen's paintings with armatures.

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Montage of select paintings by Karen with armatures.

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Turbulent Waters V Reference

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The water was so turbulent and the trees were so green. Photo taken in 'video' mode at 16:9 aspect ratio, close to the panel size used for this painting (10x16, near-golden ratio). I could have cropped it to 10x16 but in the field we try to minimize steps needed for the painting.

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Turbulent Waters V Plein Air Setup

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Painting by the Santa Fe River in the Spring.

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Turbulent Waters V Intermediate

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Some of the pencil marks from the armature are visible at this stage. Initially, I pencilled in a Golden Spiral and Basic Dynamic Symmetry Armature on the 10x16 panel . I then did a value study of the scene, using a small rectangle with the same proportion as the 10x16. I made sure that rocks lay along the spiral leading up to the top of the water fall which I intended to use as the focal point. Then I marked off the horizon line (across the river) using a 'Squeegee" along an implied horizontal line through intersection points of the grid/armature. With a Catalyst wedge I painted the dark parts of the rocks.

Final Painting with Armature =>

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Turbulent Waters V Intermediate Stage with River

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Snapshot mid-way through the painting

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Studio Tour - Turbulent Winds

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Studio Tour - Taos Gorge

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Studio Tour - Luminous Lands III

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Studio Tour - Aspens and Turbulent Waters

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Collection of several water landscapes plus Aspen paintings, which seem to complement the water paintings. Over the years I have found myself drawn to the waters again and again. Perhaps this is due to my youth in the Northwest and Hawaii, always in sight of the ocean. Or we camped out at rivers every weekend. Even in NY initially we had a home right on the water and then I spent summers at the Ocean. But even more important for a painter is that as a subject, water lends itself to capturing light and motion, so important in a landscape.

This wall also has small studies and I also included on the wall the newest Santa Fe River plein air painting. Initially I felt it was unfinished, but the more I looked at it the more I was drawn to it, Perhaps the freshness of it as a plein air work allows it to remain easy to look at and live with.

Santa Fe River Painting =>

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Studio Tour - Chromatic Lands and Others

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Studio Tour - Turbulent Lands

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Studio Tour -Diablo Canyon

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Studio Tour 0 Luminous Waters

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Studio Tour - Land Abstraction V

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Studio Tour - Luminous Lands

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Karen in Georgia's Back Yard

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Photo by Barbara Giudici while we were touring the Georgia O'Keeffe landscape on a spectacularly beautiful day.

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At the River Santa Fe

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My new favorite place to paint. This river is rushing due to heavy rains and the sound is soothing. Locals are enjoying the unusual swimming/wading hold. See recent works painted here. My friends suggest that I paint this photograph. Perhaps I will (with me in it!).