Local Hearted: Asheville Artists | WNC Artists | Art Business

Local Hearted: Asheville Artists | WNC Artists | Art Business


LH022: Karen Chambers on Pastels, Art Competitions and Embracing Simplification

December 04, 2017

Host Meredith Adler speaks with Asheville pastel artist Karen Chambers.  Karen works out of a studio in Candler, NC.  She talks about her love for plein air painting and her longstanding history of painting plein air alongside her mother.

Karen is the daughter of watercolor artist Lorraine King, and we hear in this interview how her mother's work was an influence on Karen's development as an artist. Karen's mother, by the way, does not have a website.

One of the original founding members of the local Appalachian Pastel Society, Karen generously shared in this interview about her experience as  a competition artist and as a judge for art competitions.

You will hear Karen light up when she talks about the benefits of her beloved medium, pastel!  And when she talks about how her style of painting is changing.

To connect with Karen and see more of her work:

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As mentioned in the audio intro, Karen needs to have a new website built, and the web address will be placed here when she has it completed

Highlights from this episode include:

how artists benefit from entering art competitions
what judges of art competitions are looking for
Karen's own experience as a judge of art competitions
How she radically increased her enjoyment of the painting process by changing her style
Karen's approach to teaching pastel painting
why Karen and her students formed the Appalachian Pastel Society

"I get up in my studio and I get to painting, I get to singing inside...all tension disappears..."                     Karen Chambers

Local resources mentioned during this episode:

Appalachian Pastel Society
Art League of Henderson County

Other resources available to pastel artists Karen mentions during the show

Pastel Society of America
International Association of Pastel Societies

Other examples of Karen's work

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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