Outdoor Painter Artist Spotlight
new Karen Halbert:
Sept 11, 2024: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-karen-halbert/ for this text and all images.
How did you get started and then develop your career?
Karen Halbert: On 9/11, faced with the magnitude of the catastrophe, I had to make a difficult decision: do I continue working under stressful circumstances, at NYSE in NYC? Or do I imagine a new life concentrating on another passion: painting. Painting won. In one of the many classes I took, an inspiring instructor showed me how he used the golden spiral. I was now hooked. Then I retired early.
First we moved to Woodstock and I came across a book by Albert Handell on painting in Woodstock and Santa Fe. We decided to move to Santa Fe and the rest is history. I have been a student of Albert’s and other artists in this artist-rich community since moving here and have found that I can combine my love of Mathematics and painting, especially via research into Dynamic Symmetry used by artists over the millennia. As a former college professor of Mathematics, I decided to begin doing workshops. This year I will do a combined Weekend Dual Workshop with Albert at the Bluebird Studios in Santa Fe on Nov 9 and 10: “A right-brain approach to painting and a left-brain approach to Composition and Dynamic Symmetry”. My life has come full circle.
Note that Karen has been the PAPNM webmaster since 2012 - and is the current News' Coordinator.
Carole Belliveau:
May 25, 2023: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-carole-belliveau/
Michele Byrne:
Jul 13, 2022: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-michele-byrne-2/
June 7, 2021: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-michele-byrne/
Barbara Coleman:
Dec 13, 2021: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-barbara-coleman/
Cynthia Inson:
Sept 13, 2023: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-cynthia-inson/
Carolyn Lindsey:
https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-carolyn-lindsey/
Lee MacLeod
July 12, 2023: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-lee-macleod-3/
Dec 7, 2022: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-lee-macleod-2/
Dec 6, 2021: https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-lee-macleod/
Nancy Silvia:
https://www.outdoorpainter.com/artist-spotlight-nancy-silvia/
If you are a PAPNM member and you had an artist spotlight in the Outdoor Painter, please let the "news" chair know: karen.halbert@gmail.com.