"Let the Beauty you love be what you do, there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth" Rumi
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Karen LeGault, fine art painter since 1967, is joyfully committed to poetry, light, transformation and healing, through her paintings that bring energy and serenity into the world. Her lush, distilled compositions express beauty, fragrance, rhythm and form in a magical palette where spirit is reflected through matter.
Homeowners, art collectors, garden appreciators, nature lovers, healers, interior designers and architects who appreciate contemporary fine art with an ancient root that energizes, calms and inspires, turn to her to collect and commission original paintings that contribute to peaceful, welcoming and harmonious environments.
Over thirty years of spiritual practices including Tai Chi, meditation, feng shui and clairvoyance along with a life time of painting contribute to a rare sensibility, energetic while serene, delicate yet powerful.
She applies her extensive artistic skill, mastery and sensitivity to compose and balance color, shape, form and depth that engages all the senses, offering gorgeous paintings, commissions or prints that define the spaces you live, work and breathe in with vibrant color and life. Ultimately Karen enjoys working with you to provide and create paintings that reflect the make your walls and heart sing and dance.
Karen has long been drawn to Chinese and Japanese artists of the 17th century. Bada Shan Ren, a monk painter whose black ink-work demonstrates pure distilled energy, beautiful ink work and an abstract interpretation, especially of Lotus, touched her soul deeply. Yun Bun, a 1th century female artist is another whose sensitivity and connection to the ephemeral moved her. She also loves Renaissance art and tapestries, Impressionism, the work of Kandinsky, Matisse and Chagall along with jazz music.
Her work beautifies the walls in hundreds of private collections and several permanent public collections, including Summit Hospital, The County Records Building at 1601 Madison in Oakland and the Critical Care Health Facility at Highland Hospital.
A natural colorist from an early age, Karen credits her two high school art teachers for an excellent foundation in drawing and painting and the courage to try anything.
“We are drawn to your work because it combines technical control with flair and fluidity, the true vision and freedom of expression that comes with mastery of technique and working within traditions…your paintings are true poetry…Thank you for drawing us into something wonderful.”
Michael and Edith Kimbell
Beautiful, transformative art for living, brings energy and serenity to homes, businesses and institutions.
