Artist: Karen Shortsleeve

Karen has a BFA, an MFA and over 30 years of experience teaching Advanced Placement Art History and Studio Art.

She paints seascapes, landscapes, still life, and portraits. Her preferred media is oil paint, oil pastel, and a combination of watercolor with colored pencil. She strives to capture images that touch the viewer in a personal way. In her seascapes and landscapes, she tries to communicate the feeling of being in that space- to capture the elusive space between representation and the emotions felt from the experience or memory of a place.

Associate Artist Member of the Copley Society of America

Artist Member of Cape Cod Art Center

Artist Member of the Oil Painters of America

Artist Member of Guild of Harwich Artists

Artist Member at the Gallery of the Guild of Harwich Artists

Member of the Cape Cod Museum of Art

Member of the Creative Arts Center of Chatham