Friday, July 27, 2012

August Artist Karen Cashman

Karen exhibits at the Blue Hill Bay Gallery in Maine and is an Elected Artist member of Lyme Art Association and Kent Art Association. She is also an artist member of Salmagundi Club, Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, Housatonic Art League, Deer Isle Artists Association, Madison Art Society, Washington Art Association, and the Society of Creative Arts of Newtown. Karen Cashman lives and paints in Connecticut, where she grew up in a family of oil painters. She has traveled and painted landscapes throughout New England, in Italy, Canada and the American West. She works mostly on location, showing the effects of light and atmosphere on farms, street scenes and harbors. She studied at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts with Jerry Weiss and also in plein air workshops with Mike Graves, David Lussier, Chris Magadini and others. Check out Karen's website: http://www.kcashmanpaintings.com