Watercolor painting of an antique shop in Weyben.  Dimensions:  20" by 28"

Karin Cook is a watercolor artist whose current focus is on painting en plein air. She did her undergraduate work in art at Skidmore College. As a graduate student at Rutgers University she pursued printmaking and painting. A class with Jack Flynn, AWS, years later, introduced her to what is her chosen medium, watercolor. Workshops with some watercolor’s leading artists, such as Janet Walsh, Don Andrews, Frank Webb and Domenic DiStefano, all members of the American Watercolor Society, have added to her education.

Karin’s paintings have been repeatedly juried into numerous shows in the Northeast, including those of The Copley Society, The New England Watercolor Society, Academic Artists, and the Bennington Center for the Arts. In the spring of 2000 twenty of her watercolors were exhibited at the State House in Boston. Five of her watercolors were included in an invitational show, Watercolors II, at the Copley Society on Newbury Street in Boston in 2003. Also in that year Karin had a show with her cousin, James Carlson Gartin, at the Becket Arts Center in Becket, Massachusetts. Paintings by their grandfather and mothers, who were all artists, were included in the show.

She has had paintings selected for the 2006 and 2007 Art with Heart calendars produced by ServiceNet to raise awareness and funds for people in need throughout Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley. She is currently creating illustrations for a children’s book written by her daughter-in-law, Jacqueline. In the summer, Karin teaches watercolor at the Becket Arts Center.

To see more of her works, visit her wesbsite at Hidden-Hills or at the New England Art Express.