Thank you for stopping by! I’m Karen Soleau, a painter and mixed media artist based in Vero Beach, Florida.

 

I began my career as an art teacher, nurturing young talent while moonlighting as a graphic designer. Those years left me with a lasting love for the uninhibited way children make art, freely, joyfully, without second-guessing. More than thirty-five years of design and illustration later, that freedom is still what I chase in my own work. My style is vibrant, colorful and a little quirky, full of pattern, layered marks and joy.

 

After nearly forty years in the San Francisco Bay Area, I moved to Vero Beach knowing no one, following a string of serendipitous coincidences. What I found was a community that held me: rowing on the river, Qigong on the beach at sunrise, and a garden of cut flowers. That sense of being held, and given room to grow, became the heart of my first solo exhibition, Held and Unfolding, at the Center for Spiritual Care in Vero Beach.

 

I work primarily in acrylic and mixed media, drawing inspiration from morning footprints in the sand, mangroves that seem to dance and the vessels I collect. Painting is how I process life. Many of my pieces begin in one feeling and end in another.

 

I am teaching a mixed media workshop at The Center for Spiritual Care to coincide with my art show. It's a Mixed Media class that explores color harmony, mark making and painting from feeling, where I help others rediscover the freedom to create.

 

If you’d like to learn about upcoming workshops, purchase a piece or simply say hello, I’d love to hear from you.

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Please feel free to reach out!

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