karen Weihs

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MEDIUM: Oil Paint | Palette Knife
SPECIALTY: ✔ Generalist

Using mostly palette knives and particular brushes, Weihs applies pigment in lush impasto layers interspersed with thin glazes that enrich colors and result in canvases that glow with mysterious light and form. The vague forms and evocative spaces in her paintings become magnets that draw audiences into the mystery of creation by way of human imagination.

Her works radiate an otherworldly ambience of shimmering colors and swirling shapes. Weihs galvanizes her audience’s natural curiosity with compositions that border between abstraction and landscape. She alludes to the familiar without telling the story. Her abstracted representational subject matter is deliberately simplified to capture the “idea” or essence of a place, not the reality of it. Her abstracts show her skill at mark making and texture.

 

painting using a palette knife
oil painting with a palette knife
Oil painting of a coastline by Karen Weihs
abstract oil painting
oil painting of a countryside

Karen’s EXPERTISE

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Specialty: ✔ Generalist

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Caligraphy

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Studio Setup for Art Production

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Providing Art Critiques

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Teaching How to Self Critique

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Running your art business the day-to-day

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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

abstract oil painting

Weihs is a master of following creative impulses that inspire courage, uplift the spirit and elevate art-making to a new level of intellectual stimulation making her an extraordinary teacher known for giving permission to students to explore their creativity, encouraging them to make marks with joyful abandon and experiment with tools and techniques that lead to her individual style. Weihs studied with LaMar Dodd at the University of Georgia, USA, earning a BFA degree. His repetitive, coloristic modern style was great influence.

Karen was born and raised in Charleston, SC, raised two sons and worked with and sold 7 restaurants there with her restauranteur husband, Chris Weihs, also a European trained professional chef.

They now live in Sarasota, FL where she maintains a private home studio. Member of AWA, OPA, Salmagundi Club, Weihs is skilled in painting en plein air realism to abstracts to special commissions. She has published two books.