A Time for Every Season Small by Karla Gudeon
$475.00 — $595.00
Size: Unframed: 3 x 3 (each of 4 images) Framed: 9 x 24
Limited Edition, Hand Painted Engraving
Shown widely in solo and group exhibitions, Karla’s hand painted engravings are whimsical, humorous and heart warming. Rendered in bright colors, the familiar scenes of family and community are lovingly depicted. The images of trees and still lifes bring beauty and color wherever they are placed.
- Artist's Statement:
- About Karla:
- Technique:
“I use concepts culled from a lifetime of joyous Jewish experiences to create works that evoke warm responses and a familiar sense of shared human experiences and common bonds. The images incorporated into my engravings depict representations of life, love, family, community, Jewish ritual and customs in a world of fanciful forms and highlighted natural beauty. These hand-painted prints employ my own inherited sense of humor and optimism as well as a forum for expressing my idea that works of art can become a place to come “home” to. I create an aesthetic field where people can use my visions to relate to and reflect upon their own life-experiences.”
Karla entered her family’s artistic and musical world in the Bronx, NY 1961 . She has a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC. She is the illustrator of 3 books for children published by Blue Apple Books.
Karla lives with her supportive husband and two amusing sons in Smithtown, NY.
Karla uses the printmaking techniques of dry-point engraving and etching, in which she incises the outline for her designs into metal plates. The plate is then inked and wiped, so that only the artist’s lines appear on paper when the print is pulled under high pressure. Each work of art is then lovingly painted in rich, bright, watercolor hues, thus achieving one-of-a-kind, truly unique status for each piece.
Small fiber inclusions and natural variations in the handmade papers lend charm, warmth and character to the paintings.
