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Karen Blair lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where the surrounding mountains provide daily inspiration for her work. Her own garden and those of friends inspire the flowers and trees also prevalent in the paintings and collages. There is constant tension between depicting the natural world and finding the essence of things through abstraction. Blair is known for her joyous use of color and for exuberant mark-making. She shares her life with her husband Jimmy Jackson and a Brittany named Remi.
Karen Blair
A New Day, 2026
Mixed media on canvas
43 × 43 inches
Joyous, 2026
Mixed media on canvas
48 × 60 inches
Blue Sky, 2023
Mixed media on canvas
30 × 30 inches
Artist Statement
While drawing on historical ways of painting Blair’s work explores the landscape in varying degrees of abstraction. As a gardener and student of garden design she is fascinated with the idea of viewing the landscape from a high sweeping vantage point.
The marks on the paintings become a shorthand for the experience of being in the landscape. Along with plants, the sky, mountains and water the artist is recording the time of day and season of the year.
Botany Lesson I, 2018
Mixed media on canvas
48 × 43 inches
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