Artist: Karen Crenshaw | Location: Jacksonville, NC
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Artist: Karen Crenshaw | Location: Jacksonville, NC
Jacksonville, NC
Karen Lee Crenshaw has been drawing “since she used to scribble on the walls as a child.” She earned a BS in Art Ed from Concord University in WV and an MFA in Painting from George Washington University in Washington, DC. Karen has lived in Jacksonville, NC, for twenty years where she maintains studios in her home and at ArtExposure in Hampstead, NC.
Karen accepts portrait commissions, specializing in portraits of women and children. Her work is traditional and lifelike, yet it maintains a painterly quality. She enjoys providing clients with an heirloom that will last for many generations. A recent solo show in Jacksonville, “Faces and Places,” included over 40 landscapes and 20 portraits.
Several of Karen’s coastal landscapes were selected for reproduction in "Painting North Carolina, A Visual Journey," by Kimberly Maselli. Her work joined those of 32 regionally and nationally known landscape painters who depicted the beauty of North Carolina from the mountains to the coast.