Karen Poulson received her art training at Ohio Wesleyan University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Since the 1970s, she has exhibited in national juried and invitational shows, including Watercolor USA at the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri, the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibit in Golden, the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, and Moore Inspired at Denver Botanic Gardens. Her work is held in many private and public collections, among them Hallmark, ConAgra, Pfizer, Storage Technology, Hyatt Hotels, the Viceroy Hotel, Colorado Women’s College, and New Mexico’s Art in Public Places program. She was recently honored as a Distinguished Alumni Artist with a solo exhibition at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Though she first earned a degree in sociology and anthropology, Karen returned quickly to painting, carrying her interest in prehistory and the marks left by earlier generations into her visual work. She describes art as an attempt to “express the inexpressible, to reveal the unseen,” often exploring the tension between the eternal and the ephemeral. In her paintings, she works to fuse paint and idea on the surface, developing a personal visual language that connects past and present.