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13 X 19 / 20 X27 Framed Watercolor on Illustration Board

 Painting of fall foliage and crowds on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, VA.

Item Special Note

Karen Anderson Schwartz is a watermedia artist living in Williamsburg, Virginia. Originally from California, she loves to travel and has painted many scenes from her trips to England, Ireland and Cuba as well as her visits to family in Tennessee, Texas, and the San Francisco bay area. She enjoys painting the people, landscapes, and architecture of the places she’s visited, and paints and draws from studio models, sketches and photographs she’s taken.

Karen earned her B.A. in Fine Arts from San Diego State University with a concentration in painting and printmaking.  Watercolor painting has been the focus of her work for the last several years. She began studying watercolor with Jan Ledbetter in 1997, and has since studied with some of country's leading watercolorists and collage painters, including Alex Powers, Gerald Brommer, Polly Hammet, Jean Grasdorf, Linda Stevens-Moyers, Judi Betts, Doug Walton, Cheng Khee Chee, Skip Lawrence, Christopher Schink, and Phyllis Greenway. 

Her work has been exhibited in shows at the Poquoson Public Library, This Century Art Gallery in Williamsburg, the Williamsburg Public Library, and at the Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William & Mary, as well as “Art on the Square” and at “An Occasion for the Arts” in Williamsburg. Karen has been accepted to the Virginia Watercolor Society’s 2003 - 2007 Annual Exhibitions and is a signature artist member of the VWS. She has received awards for her work at This Century Art Gallery’s 2004 Annual Members Show, the Virginia Watercolor Society’s 2005 Annual Exhibition, An Occasion for the Arts-2005, and the Central Virginia Watercolor Guild-2007. She is a participating artist and board member of This Century Art Gallery in Williamsburg, and has taught a mixed media/collage class through TCAG. 

In addition to painting and volunteer work, Karen works part time at the College of William & Mary and does free-lance web design for artists and arts organizations.

Karen’s paintings are exhibited at Prince George Art & Frame in Williamsburg, Virginia.  To see more of her work, visit her web site at www.karenschwartzart.com or contact her by email at karenschwartzart@cox.net.