Karen Lynn Ingalls Contemporary Art

—You can see Karen Lynn Ingalls's artwork currently at Jessel Gallery in Napa, as part of the Holiday Show Extravaganza, and at the Sonoma Valley Museum Shop until early January. More news about that here — and you can watch a video overview of the visual feast currently at Jessel Gallery here....

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.