Meet the Fine Arts Faculty

Karen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, in painting and printmaking, at SMU.  She worked with an art therapist from London, at Arlington House Hospital in Virginia, for 2 years and did intensive coursework in counseling. She began painting when she was five. Karen has lived in Holland and England and has traveled extensively, seeing artworks in many museums. Her work has won local, regional, and national awards and been in galleries and shows in Tennessee, Virginia, Texas, and Connecticut. Karen's media is primarily graphite and painting; she loves using printmaking and other media. She illustrated all of the horse events in Memphis/Germantown, Tennessee for a cookbook, Pegasus Presents. Her studio and artwork were featured in local and international publications. Karen has taught art seminars in Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.  She has loved teaching all ages and currently teaches in the Rhetoric School at Covenant!

"Art is an expression, a record of what is seen or felt.  Its highest reason for being is to reflect some part of the majesty and glory of God's creation and redemptive story.  I paint because I love beauty and love to create.  I enjoy the pleasure and dialogue it brings to others.  I create art from what I see and what I think is beautiful, true, or significant."