Karen Kirkpatrick
After receiving a BFA from University of Colorado, Denver, Karen turned toward conceptual photographic work for her creative outlet. Having worked with black & white film for many years, she bought a digital camera in 2009, and discovered another direction that adding color could take her images. Digital manipulation has allowed her additional methods for adding depth and emotion to her work.
Often using the landscape and nature, she builds images that hold a story, a feeling, or a suggestion of human connection to parts of nature that we often take for granted. She infuses her work with the unseen – sometimes touching on the psychological or emotional and sometimes the ethereal. There is a human presence in each of the images, which is often implied rather than obvious.