Artist Statement

Karen Klee-Atlin is originally from Toronto, where she studied at the Ontario
College of Art. She did graduate work in painting and printmaking and received
her MFA in painting from the University of Calgary. She has lived in many parts
of Canada and the US as well as in Peru, the Philippines and Mexico, teaching
art in schools and universities as well as pursuing her own studio work. She
teaches at the Kirkland Arts Center.
Much of her life has been spent overseas and these periods of time have
contributed richly to her work. Her work in woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints
represents many years of printmaking as her primary medium. Her choice of
subject matter is eclectic and ranges from nature and figures to utilitarian
objects but tends to put an emphasis on beauty overlooked or obscured. She
has shown her work internationally, and her images can be found as the covers
of two plays, Bone Cage and It Is Solved By Walking, by Canadian playwright and
two-time Governor-General’s Award winner Catherine Banks.