About Karen Atkins

My paintings are a meandering through personal experience and recollections.  They celebrate the beauty and wonder of everyday events.  I use texture and a colour drenched palette to tell stories and convey heartfelt emotions that I hope engage viewers and connect them to universal themes and feelings. Artist, Karen Atkins was born on the outskirts of Melbourne - she has drawn and painted her all life.

After completing studies at Monash University and Hawthorn Institute of Education in Melbourne, she went to North-Western Victoria to teach.  During the ten years she spent there, she fell in love with the huge expanses of the sky and land of Australia's interior.

Constantly painting, she also spent time droving, working as a shearer's "rouseabout" as well as the regular calendar chores associated with life on a sheep and wheat farm.  

In 1996, she arrived in Sydney and began painting full time, enormously excited by the variability of vistas and the huge expanses of water after the red flatness of the Mallee.