Karen Fitzgerald was born on a dairy farm in central Wisconsin. Her early experiences living closely with natural forces of sunlight, shadow, snow and rain, formed a basis for her work. “I have always felt an extraordinary beauty in the physical world. I interpret landscape metaphorically, merging the real with metaphysical reality, creating a lush, quiet place for viewers.” She believes that the experience of beauty is essentially spiritual, expanding our awareness, uniting sensual, emotional, intellectual and psychic perceptions.

In this expanding universe,
everything is leaving everything,
yet there is no center
from which any of this leave-taking leaves;
The middle of every departure
is everywhere.
- John Sokol from Thoughts Near the Close of the Millenium.