Artist Bio
Karen Engelmeyer, born in London, England is a self-taught artist who started painting during the pandemic and never looked back. Painting has become a passion and an obsession. Her mixed media art includes the use of acrylic paints and inks, papers, fabrics, ribbons, vintage jewelry, book pages and objects from the natural world.
In a past life, Karen was a high school English teacher. She currently lives in Watchung, New Jersey and devotes her days to practicing her art.
Each painting is a poem that she hopes others may relate to and love.
Karen’s Instagram is @buddhabrushstrokes.
Artist Statement
All of my work is an attempt to capture the beauty of the ephemeral, which connects all things. It is a message of love, an invitation to open the heart and glimpse the inner beauty that permeates all things. I am inspired by the infinite mysteries of the natural world, the wonders of the night sky, the resilience of the human spirit and an awareness that everything is perfectly imperfect (“that’s how the light gets in” Leonard Cohen).
