Artist: Karen Lee Crenshaw | Location: Jacksonville, NC
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Artist: Karen Lee Crenshaw | Location: Jacksonville, NC
Jacksonville, NC
Karen Lee Crenshaw has been drawing “since she used to scribble on the walls as a child.” While living in Jacksonville, NC for the last twenty years, she has fallen in love with the beautiful NC Coast. You can find her painting landscapes either in her studio in Hampstead, NC, or outdoors, “en plein air.”
Karen has also been accepting portrait commissions for many years. Her work is traditional and lifelike, yet it maintains a painterly quality. She enjoys providing her clients with an heirloom that will last for many generations. “I especially love working with children and capturing that innocence that seems to pass so quickly,” the artist says.
Since earning an MFA at the George Washington University, she has continued to study portraiture at Studio Incamminati, and with Thomas Nash and Michael Shane Neal. She recently completed a North Carolina Regional Artists Grant to paint “30 Portraits in 30 Days,” while studying the limited palette of Swedish artist, Anders Zorn.
Artist Website
www.KarenLeeCrenshaw.com