Karen Flann

Karen Flann
Mixed watermedia/ collage
kflann4@verizon.net    
703-764-806

Spiritual Color Veiling, taught by Barbara Thelin Preston, was the beginning of Karen lann’s art journey.    After exploring watercolor and abstract acrylic painting with a series of nationally-recognized teachers, including Carolyn Gawarecki and Marsha Staiger, she became fascinated with abstract collage.  She also took workshops with both Gerald Brommer and Mary Todd Beam.  As a result, she has become something of a bag lady, constantly looking for stray bits of material to be incorporated into her next piece of work.

Her work has been accepted into juried shows at River Farm, Green Spring Gardens Park, the Vienna Art Society, Aldie Mill, the Art League, and  the Sewall Belmont House and Museum   She has also been a guest artist at the  ValeArts show and sale.

She created the cover design for the novella, Mad Dog and for Smoky Ordinary, a collection of short fiction.

Proceeds from the sale of her work go to the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research in memory of her father and brother.