Sunset LOS

Sunset LOSKarina Steeles design inspiration lay heavily influenced by her connection to nature. Growing up in Evergreen, Colorado in the 70s and 80s, she briefly left to attend college at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR earning a degree in Biology, thinking she would be a wildlife biologist. After college, she returned to Colorado in Crested Butte where she spent 15 years in various seasonal jobs and covering many miles of trails both snowy and dry. In

yielding unique compositions

These nocturnes have been born in yet another pandemic winter

making them is easy

He is self-taught and paints with a vivid imagination

Additionally

which is something my mother and grandmother both did

This series is a reflection on "shelter" and my complex desires as a new parent for my daughter’s safety and freedom

and bits of illegible writing

sensory experience and the textures of the material world are rendered through die-cuts

They are not painted from photographs

you might find sunny landscapes and puffy clouds in most of them

interesting objects