Karen Klee-Atlin was born in 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.

Much of her life has been spent overseas and these periods of time have contributed richly to her work. Karen gathers images from a range of sources, including folk religious sculpture, industrial training manuals and scarecrows, and renders them in woodcuts, acrylic and oil. 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.

Website: http://kaestudio.net/about.html

Articles:“Into the Woods”; Karen Klee Atlin at Shift Gallery

Karen Klee-Atlin, Procession, (2018). Monoprint on paper, 46 x 36 in.

Karen Klee-Atlin, Blazed Tree – Gray V, (2018). Reductive linocut on paper, 20 x 20 in.

Karen Klee-Atlin, Blazed Birch – White and Black, (2018). Reductive linocut on paper, 20 x 20 in.

Karen Klee-Atlin, Blazed Birch – Red Ribbon, (2018). Reductive linocut on paper, 20 x 20 in.

Karen Klee-Atlin, Blazed Birch – Pink Ribbon, (2018). Reductive linocut on paper, 20 x 20 in.

Karen Klee-Atlin, Blazed Birch – Charcoal, (2018). Reductive linocut on paper, 20 x 20 in.

Karen Klee-Atlin, Blazed Birch – Black Ribbon, (2018). Reductive linocut on paper, 20 x 20 in.

Karen Klee-Atlin, Campfire 2, (2016). Reductive linocut on paper, 22 x 30 in.