Featured Artist: Karen Love-Protter

Local Pemberton Artist -Karen Love- showcases her work from December through February!


ABOUT KAREN LOVE:

I was born and raised in Kleinburg, Ontario, home of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. While growing up I spent a lot of time at the gallery and in the woods and fields surrounding it. The Group of Seven, Tom Thompson and Emily Carr, naturally, were huge influences on me. As a girl I participated in many sketching outings led by A.Y. Jackson, who lived at the Gallery in his twighlight years. We'd go out to the wooded gallery grounds and sketch, and he'd be pushed along in his wheel chair and talk about our work - and his. While I'm very interested in abstract painting and often go through abstract phases, my greatest enjoyment comes from expressing nature's fundament though art.


I studied fine art at Art Sake Inc., a school known for experimental painting, and continued my studies at Sheridan College School of Craft and Design, BCIT, Emily Carr Design Institute, and at Capilano College. I spent four years traveling, working and living in the Canadian Arctic, both in the Yukon and the North West Territories. Naturally I'm an avid outdoors-woman - I really enjoy paddling, horseback riding, mountain biking and running.


I spend a lot of time wandering our farm property in Pemberton, BC, always discovering new beauty in the field, forest, pond and garden. Nature's colours and geometric shapes are incredibly interesting to observe through the different seasons.I often find my own artistic development through my children and through teaching others to paint. Children are such great observers and love to spend time examining at nature's most minute details. I've spent my working life immersed in the visual arts - as a graphic designer, photographer, muralist, decorative painter, silversmith and painter. For many years, my husband and I owned and operated a marketing communication firm with a national client base. We moved to Pemberton in 1990, and have two children.

To see more of her work go to: http://www.karenloveart.com
or email her!