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This Storm Too Shall Pass...

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"This Storm Too Shall Pass" • 11"x 14" • Acrylics on canvas, unframed • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
There was a break in the storm clouds one day in the first week of March, 2020. Beyond I could see blue sky, and a bit of the sun hitting Mt. St. Helena, just north of Calistoga, where I live. It seems emblematic of our times. It's good to remember that, yes, this storm too shall pass.  — Karen Lynn Ingalls

Color, Color, Color

Napa Valley vineyard landscape painting
Dusk In The Vineyards • acrylics on canvas • 48" x 48" • © 2012 Karen Lynn Ingalls
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.

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Vineyard Tree • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
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Autumn Celebration • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
California landscape painting
Trees on Oat Hill • 16" x 20" • acrylics on canvas, framed • © 2014 Karen Lynn Ingalls
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Morning Celebration • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
Napa Valley art workshops
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