About
Karen Meadows is a Northern California artist whose paintings and mixed-media works are engaging, full of joyful color that sing with emotional resonance.
Having spent many hours growing up on her horse and roaming the hills, nature underlies the roots of her art.
She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Sonoma and an M.F.A. from Calif College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited Nationally and Internationally, Including the U.C. Museum or Art, Science, and Culture in California, the Lausanne Biennale Switzerland, and Nordjllands Kunstmuseum in Denmark as well as throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Working from her ICB studio in Sausalito, Meadows creates layered, atmospheric compositions that reflect the changing nature of both the external world and her inner life.
Artist’s Statement
My work begins with an experience rather than an image—As I walk into my studio, I am filled with excitement and curiosity, a place of happy accidents, hard work and great joy. Working in layers, I let the paint guide me as I reach for colors that excite, engage and make me feel more awake.
Through layering, obscuring, and revealing, I create paintings that hold both uncertainty and discovery. I am interested in what lies between the visible and the felt, where memory, intuition, and thought converge. Abstraction calls me to search, a dialogue to guide and simplify while constantly experimenting with new approaches.