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.
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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Writing Bios
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Shows and Exhibits
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Running your art business the day-to-day
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Confidence Building
I love how Karen takes risks in her painting. She instills this excitement in me.
Karen has a special way of showing complex technique in a way that feels accessible for everyone.
As always, Karen is showing us new ways to approach our painting practice!
Karen is a gifted teacher. She works passionately to identify how to help each student on their specific journey, in other words to meet them where they are at, She is a very effective communicator and explains her process both in basic terms and nuanced layers to help us become better artists.
Karen is a great mentor – very open, willing to share her knowledge and she is very responsive to the group’s needs.
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Emerging
Mentorship Membership
$ USD87/Monthly Membership
Next session: September 18, 2024
On the 3rd Wednesday of every month 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM MDT Wed
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Mentorship Membership
$ USD87/Monthly Membership
Next session: September 24, 2024
On the 4th Tuesday of every month 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM MDT Tue
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ABSTRACTING THE LANDSCAPE
October 12, 2024 (ONE DAY ONLY)
Explore your creativity and make marks with new tools and techniques.
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.
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