Karen Winslow
Karen Winslow has been a professional artist for over 34 years. Her artistic career began as a freelance fashion illustrator in New York City, after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her illustrations appeared in McCall’s, J.C. Penney, Vogue-Butterick, Gimbels and trade magazines throughout the seventies. 
During this time, she began seriously studying oil painting and drawing at the Art Students League with Frank Mason and Robert Brackman , and attending anatomy lectures with Robert Beverly Hale. This created a career shift from commercial art to fine art.
All of her painting are from life (not photographs), and she is equally at home with plein air landscapes, still life, portraits, florals, interiors and allegories. She is among the few artists today reviving and upholding traditional craftsmanship, which means she grinds her own paints and makes her own mediums and varnishes.
“I am a realist. But, I want my work to be neither primitive nor photographic. Like the great painters before me, I use the principles of light and shade, form and structure, atmospheric perspective, and movement…not to copy, but to compose directly from nature, allowing the brushwork to respond spontaneously.
“I want my paintings to be soft, graceful and interpretive; fluid, not rigid or hard-edged - neither over-worked nor under-worked. My work should express a unified thought, a harmonious statement that is positive and uplifting; work that searches and probes for truth; and work that strives to maintain the delicate balance between logic, emotion, draftsmanship and craftsmanship.
“To this end, I am an artist.”
In 1979, she moved to Vermont with her husband and fellow artist, John (Jack) Winslow. Since that time, she has been selling her paintings and raising 5 children.
In February 1991, American Artist magazine wrote a major feature about the Winslows and in 1992, she was invited by the Museum of Fine Art in Gifu, Japan to do portrait drawing demonstrations to celebrate the museum’s anniversary. Collections include the Fleming Museum, Woodstock Inn, Howard Bank, Merchants Bank, International Silver Company, Mercy Hospital, Basin Harbor Club, Wakefield Group and Johnson State College