Artist: Karen Winslow

Karen Winslow's artistic career began as a freelance fashion illustrator in New York City, after graduation from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Looking for something more fulfilling, she signed up for oil painting classes at the Art Students League of New York, studying figure and landscape painting with Frank Mason and attending the anatomy lectures of Robert Beverly Hale. In 1979 she moved to Vermont with her husband and fellow artist, Jack Winslow. Since that time, they have been selling their paintings (over 1,000 sold) and teaching classes and workshops for serious art students who desire to paint and draw in a realistic manner. All of Karen’s paintings are from life, and she is equally at home with plein air landscapes, still life, portraits, florals, interiors, and allegories. She is among the few artists today reviving and upholding traditional craftsmanship, which means she grinds her own paints and makes her own mediums and varnishes. She is a master of her craft, rooted in the traditions of Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velasquez, Sargent and Tarbel.

Karen and Jack Winslow were the subject of the cover feature article in American Artist magazine in February of 1991. In 1992, Karen was one of two people from the United States to be invited by the Museum of Fine Art in Gifu, Japan, to do portrait drawing demonstrations to celebrate the museum’s anniversary. Her work is in the collections of the Fleming Museum, Woodstock Inn, Howard Bank, Merchants Bank, International Silver Company, Mercy Hospital, Basin Harbor Club, Wakefield Group, and Johnson State College.

Curtain Call, oil on panel, 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches	Danville Sunset, oil on panel, 9 x 12
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