Karen Eide holds a BFA from VCU in Richmond, Virginia. She is an award-winning artist whose richly textured encaustic and mixed media paintings are shown in exhibitions throughout the country and are collected internationally. Her work draws from an iconography of flora and fauna through which she presents a quiet and contemplative visual dialog of the rural world around her. Several times a year she offers workshops through the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

ARTIST STATEMENT
My affinity with nature and the environment is the recurrent thread that runs throughout my work. Within spare and ambiguous landscapes my work expresses the essence of my connection to nature’s frailty, its humor, joy, and beauty. Concerns over environmental disruption, destruction and extinction are regarded by nature’s watchful, inescapable eye and from a center of quiet, calm and hope. I reflect on ideas surrounding longing and loss, fertility, balance, growth, renewal and solitude.
As I move through my days and nights, I am visually, emotionally, spiritually impacted by all that I take in. What ends up in paint are Sense Memories — distillations... reactions...impressions of ideas, colors, shapes, objects, nature—that have left an indelible imprint, scratched at my soul and played with my passions.

Painting: "The Poetry of Migration" 16 x 16 x 1" Encaustic on panel. 2009© K. Eide. Available

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