Karen Lynn Ingalls Contemporary Art

Come see Karen Lynn Ingalls during Open Studios Napa Valley, the last two weekends of September — and be sure to see the Open Studios Preview Show, at Jessel Gallery in September, at 1019 Atlas Peak Road, Napa, California. Karen will be at the Calistoga Art Center, Studio #35, 1435 North Oak Street, in Calistoga Sept. 22-23 and 29-30 from 10 t0 5.

Color, Color, Color

Napa Valley painter Karen Lynn Ingalls creates work with vibrantly charged color. Her colorist landscape paintings of rural California often employ yellows and oranges, and warm blues and greens that glow with a warmth redolent of a kind of eternal summer, a kind of archetypal last, golden hour of the day.

Although her colors change depending on the seasons, the landscape, the time of day, and what interests her, she frequently returns to this palette, which she describes as containing "a kind of visual Vitamin C." It is these colors that people often remark on as drawing them into her work. They are the colors of a golden state — perhaps a California that is a state of mind, or a state of the heart.