All of our paintings are about light and movement, and if I can capture a believable illusion of form and a sense of depth, I am pretty happy! We try to look beyond “the facts” to distill a visual poem, one that expresses a simple truth with honesty. This is why we always work from life, not photographs. A photograph records the “facts”, but an artist translates these facts into selected design and structured harmony, which is a balance of draftsmanship, craftsmanship, logic and emotion.
- Karen Winslow
KAREN WINSLOW
 Grazing24x30, Oil |
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 Jeffersonville Art Jam12x12, Oil |
 Boating23x29.5, Oil |
KAREN AND JACK WINSLOW have been painting side by side since 1973, when
they began studying oil painting with Frank Mason at the Art Students League of
New York, as well as in Mason's landscape painting workshops in Vermont. In 1979,
they moved to Vermont and established the Winslow Art Studio. For the past
thirty-six years, they have been producing and selling their paintings through
various galleries and raising their five children. Although they paint a broad range of subject matter, their paintings focus on light and movement and are all created from life, not photographs.
The Winslows are among the few artists today who are reviving and upholding "Old Master" techniques and traditional craftsmanship. They grind most of their paints, make their own mediums and varnishes, and prepare the finest Belgian or Irish linen, panels, or 100% rag paper with the best grounds. Their works hang in homes and offices throughout the United States and abroad.
Karen is an active teacher locally and beyond, regularly leading workshops for Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, CT, Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester, VT, and more, in addition to teaching together with her husband at Winslow Art Studio. Located on Bartlett Hill Road in Cambridge, Vermont, their studio offers atelier training to serious artists of all abilities. Classes and workshops in still life, figure/portrait, and outdoor landscape painting are held year-round in the studio under natural north skylights, or in the surrounding area for plein air (outdoor) painting. Students work directly from models, still life arrangements and outdoors for landscape painting, and the studio is wheelchair accessible.
b. 1950