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"In my art I show a moment in time that has evoked in me a refreshing experience of visual pleasure. It is this experience that I would like to pass on to the viewer."
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ARTIST STATEMENT:

                While growing up in northern Manitoba, I spent my summers at the lake, often times hanging over the  edge of a boat watching the surface patterns of waves, observing the reflections of the shore on the water and peering into the depths to see what was floating and on the bottom of the lake. An interest in landscape, and water in particular, informs my art today. Summers are now spent camping and hiking in the foothills and mountains, and canoeing the lakes of western and northern Canada. Gathering information with small watercolour plein air sketches  and with a camera, I return to the studio to paint those moments of observation that I have enjoyed. 
                In the landscape I am attracted to shorelines, to close focus views of the surface and depths of water, to the patterns that reflections form, and to the interplay of transparency and solid object. Similar interests are evident in still life works. In both, colour is enhanced and occasionally arbitrary and value contrasts are accentuated. I do this to orchestrate attention to what I have found visually enjoyable. 

Curriculum Vitae

Education
1997     BA  English University of Calgary
1993     BFA  University of Calgary
1967     BSN  University of Saskatchewan


Selected Exhibitions
2008   Centre 64 Regional Invitational Exhibition: Kimberley, BC
2006   Juried Members' Show: Leighton Art Centre, AB
2005   Celebrate Lake O'Hara: Canmore Artists & Artisans Guild Group Show. Canmore Library Gallery, Canmore, AB
2005   Near and Far: Three Person Show, Canmore Library Gallery, Canmore, AB
2005   The Allegorical Pear: Group Show, Arts on Atlantic, Calgary, AB
2004   Gala Show: Artpoint Gallery & Studios Society Group Show, Calgary, AB
2003   Spring Fever: Five Person Show, The Garrison Gallery, Calgary, AB
2002 - 2003  Little Things in Life: Alberta Federation of Artists Traveling Exhibition, Province of Alberta


Collections
- University of Calgary Faculty of General Studies
- Private Collections

Affiliations
- Purcell Mountain Painters, 
Invermere, BC
- NorVA, Flin Flon, MB

Contact:
250-341-2104
khenke62@yahoo.ca
www.karenmacrae.ca
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