Woman riding a tiger with floral and natural elements in the background

“I'm not painting what I already feel. I'm painting what I long to feel.

Each figure is a future self I'm reaching toward — someone freer, stronger, more at peace than I am yet."

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  • Woman in a floral dress surrounded by flowers and butterflies with a colorful, artistic background.
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  • Woman holding a patterned fabric with flowers and text, surrounded by floral elements.
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  • Woman in a garden with goldfish and butterflies, artistic style
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  • Painting of a woman on horseback with flowers and abstract elements
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  • Woman riding a tiger with floral and natural elements in the background
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  • Artistic depiction of a woman in a garden with flowers and plants.
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  • Artistic depiction of a woman sitting by a fish tank with goldfish.
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Hi, I'm Karen

Painting has been in my bones since I was a kid — it just took me a PhD, six years in tech, and a long stretch of trying to be other things first to come back to it.

I'm not on the other side of any of it. I have a dog who's not the brightest and a painting in the studio right now I keep calling 'demon lady' because it's fighting me. That's the work, and I'd rather show it to you than pretend otherwise.

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