Karen Lynn Ingalls Contemporary Art

You can see Karen Lynn Ingalls' artwork during Open Studios Napa Valley the last two full weekends of September, with a preview show at Jessel Gallery in Napa during September, and in the Tree Heart Art, part of Hearts Across the Valley, you'll see all over downtown Calistoga from April through October, if you take a stroll down our main street, Lincoln Avenue, and look at the trees.

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.