I am an oil painter who enjoys painting scenes from life — the way dappled light covers a forest floor, rural life in the country, and beautiful places visited that need to be remembered forever.

Artist Statement – Karen Wagaman My work is rooted in exploration—of color, texture, and the endless ways creativity can connect people. Whether working in acrylic, watercolor, digital art, or mixed media, I approach each piece as an opportunity to merge technique with intuition. My background in studio art informs my practice with a respect for craft, while my training in business administration gives me an appreciation for the broader role creativity plays in building creative communities. Art, for me, is not only a personal journey but also a collective one. Living and working in Northwest Arkansas, I am inspired daily by the makers, artists, and entrepreneurs who shape our cultural…

Drawing on both my agrarian upbringing and professional experience as a craftsman builder, I am curious about imagery reflecting our collective search for, and creation of, place in the world. including our natural instinct to expand as well as our boundless optimism and appetite for it. My art speaks to our nature to build and to improve the human condition and sometimes the impermanence of our efforts. Together, this cycle of place-making and deterioration capture our quest for a better life while acknowledging its limitations. For me, painting place is a process of self-discovery as I interpret images or ideas that capture my attention, using tools of water, paper, color,…

Orange and Grapes Horizontal, Pomegranates and Grapes Horizontal, Lemon and Grapes Horizontal 6″ X 12″ X .5″ original oil painting on stretched canvas

No pressure. Finding joy in the process of creating with no pressure. Perfectionists nightmare. Creating a piece and not being afraid of the small mistakes but rather seeing the bigger picture.

Golden recycled paper representing a net with colors of red, orange, blue accents. The frays are made of threads hand tied. The dark violet back ground makes this piece pop. Size 36×36 inches placed in a beautiful gold frame

This exhibition includes three artists: Amy Terry, Angela Teeter and Aaron Jones. We all work in the art form of assemblage, but with very distinct styles. I identify as an expressive, tinkering, process artist. My approach to creating is non-traditional. I collect found objects, such as bones, fragments of machinery, and broken/ orphaned pieces of all things strange and unusual. I curate and combine the objects to create something interesting and novel. I take inspiration from nature, spirituality and folklore from all cultures, history, scientific experiments, tattooing, Gothic literature and aesthetics, as well as cinema, specifically classic horror and Sci-Fi films. Creative influences: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Henry Fuseli, H.R. Giger,…

A 30×24 stretched canvas, oil medium. Though she is a Norwegian Princess. She fits in the Ozarks, no shoes.

Recycled paper golden abstract representation of a fossil found. This piece is accompanied by thread and bead accents. Size 36 x36 in a beautiful gold frame

30×24 stretched canvas, oil painting.