Called “Poetry on Canvas”, Karen Fedderson’s traditional oil paintings, capture and celebrate the beauty of the California coastal landscape. Karen focuses on the magnificent landforms, the colors of the water and the plant life that occur in the unique conditions of light and atmosphere near the sea. The paintings show a rare balance of detailed realism and emotion. With expert and patient brushwork she captures a level of detail that involves the viewer in her dynamic compositions. Her rich and subtle coloration and deep atmospheric perspective bring out the feelings and emotional qualities of her experience at the location.

Karen Fedderson's coastal paintings focus on three areas of the California Coast: the Golden Coast from Ventura to Cambria, the Big Sur to Monterey Peninsula area and the North Coast beyond San Francisco. In her travels the lyrical landscapes of inland areas of California have caught her eye. Her paintings of the gentle rolling hills, lakes and creeks are captured with the same emotionally charged sensitivity as her coastal paintings