Karen Baker CPS, PSA

 

Karen Baker CPS, PSA  is an award-winning landscape and floral artist who has been teaching the art of pastel painting and the creative process for over 20 years.  Her love for teaching includes helping students discover and express their creative “voice” through applied technique and self-exploration.

Before pursuing a career in fine art, Baker worked as a journalist and tabloid editor for 15 years in northern New England.  She studied drawing and mixed media with abstract artist Barbara Garber at Brattleboro
Community College in Vermont, where she became passionate about the pastel medium and landscape painting.  In the years that followed, she was mentored by Master Pastelist Herman Margulies, and studied with noted
pastelists Stanley Maltzman, Christina DeBarry, Elizabeth Apgar-Smith, Wolf Kahn, Albert Handell, and Larry Moore.

An active member of the arts community, she supports fellow artists and civic art projects, and is the founder of MainStreet Arts, and co-director of both MainStreetArts.net and ArtVenturesEtc.com.   She is a member of the Pastel Society of Tampa Bay, The Exhibiting Society of  Artists, and  the Vermont Pastel Society.  She also holds signature membership with Connecticut Pastel Society and Pastel Society of America.  A frequent exhibitor in regional and national shows, she is represented by galleries in New England and Florida.  www.kbakerstudios.com