Karen Weihs Fine Art
Using mostly palette knives and particular brushes, Karen 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 shapes. Drifting clouds reflected in a lake, a distant skyline of forest or city, grey fog rolling across the horizon are these forms real or imagined, 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 of feeling, not the reality of it. Weihs invents each new journey of creation by trusting her intuition completely and by following wherever her hand and intuition lead inside the very textural composition. Like memories that bubble to the surface of the mind, the images her palette knife creates as it carves, smoothes, jabs and dances across the surface eventually coalesce to form a holistic picture.
“The magic happens and draws me in, and I find myself driven to capture and paint those responses over and over again. It’s deeply gratifying. This erudition has earned me a confidence in looking for the cutting edge of paint technique, ever evolving to a higher standard. Usually, the viewer can find something of the subject matter to relate to. This process allows me to tackle a subject that may or may not appear as my eyes see, painting the paint.” – Karen Weihs
She is also 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 individual style. Weihs studied with LaMar Dodd at the University of Georgia earning a BFA degree. His repetitive, coloristic modern style was great influence.
Memberships: Salmagundi Art Club, American Women Artists, Impressionistic Society of America, and Oil Painters of America
Residing now in North Venice Beach, Florida, Karen is focusing on mentoring emerging artists and special art competitions and exhibitions. she says now is her time to be dedicated to spending quality time with everything in life she enjoys. Her work is enabled for sale on her website and by appointment in her Venice home.
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.
Karen Weihs paintings are represented by:
Chasen Gallery
1830 S. Osprey Ave.
Sarasota, FL
Chasen Gallery II
Westfield Siesta Key Mall
3501 S. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL
Modern Artist also is showing in other fine art galleries: Grand Bohemian Gallery, Asheville, NC, Joan Anderson Interiors, Cashiers, NC.
You can contact Karen Weihs directly to see her work.
Website:
828-226-4024
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