"Hummingbird"

24" x 20" acrylic on canvas

Creative Clay Artist Karen C.

Karen C. is from Pittsburgh, PA and has been a Creative Clay Member Artist since 2006.

She is a prolific artist who enjoys painting wildlife, especially birds, in a realistic painterly style. Karen is inspired by photographs, books, and magazines. She keeps a journal of sketches and photos of birds. Her many painted birds include a perched hummingbird, black-billed whistling duck by a pond, penguin, swallow-tailed kite, egrets, sea hawks, owls, and many more. Karen also enjoys sewing and knitting, and embroidery, which she said is "very relaxing."

Karen's paintings are in private and corporate folk art collections throughout the region. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibits at Creative Clay's Good Folk Gallery, and at St. Petersburg College- Seminole, Lewis House at Eckerd College, and the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Her work was also displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts Store in St. Petersburg.

About Creative Clay

Creative Clay's mission is to help people with disabilities achieve full and inclusive lives by providing expressive, educational and vocational experiences in the arts.
Creative Clay achieves its mission by providing studio arts workshops for individuals with disabilities 5 days per week. Creative Clay teaching artists provide students with education and experience in artistic techniques, as well as vocational skills related to the display, promotion, and sale of their expressive works. In addition, Creative Clay engages professional musicians and actors to integrate music and theatre experiences into Creative Clay's programming.

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