Oil paintings, acrylics, and handmade crochet rooted in the Mediterranean coast and the mountains of northern Lebanon. Each piece is an original, painted and shipped from Karen's studio in Tripoli.
"I paint the world the way it actually feels — too vivid, too warm, too alive to fit inside careful little lines."
Somewhere in Tripoli, wedged between the sea and the mountains and quite possibly underneath a cat or two, there is a woman whose hands are permanently stained with paint and whose heart beats in bold, saturated color.
Karen works in oil and acrylic with the quiet confidence of someone who studies at a Fine Arts university in Lebanon. She speaks four languages, which is useful when you want to describe the exact shade of a Mediterranean sunset and one language simply will not do. She crochets with the patience of someone who has made peace with the passage of time, and she draws inspiration from everything she encounters: the crumbling pastel façades of old Tripoli, the impossible blue of the northern coast, the way afternoon light falls through her studio window while Karbouch knocks something off a shelf.
Watercolors? Karen does not do watercolors. She has never done watercolors. Please do not ask about watercolors.
Every painting ships directly from her studio. Every supply recommendation on this site is something she has used, tested, and refused to give up. She is assisted full-time by two cats named Karbouch and Mia, neither of whom has ever been helpful.
Each painting is a one-of-a-kind original, painted in Karen's Tripoli studio and shipped worldwide.
Over the years, Karen has tested, discarded, hoarded, and fallen in love with more art supplies than she'd care to admit. The products recommended below are the survivors: the brushes, paints, and materials she actually reaches for when it's time to work. Nothing here is filler, and nothing is recommended for the sake of a commission. Life is too short for bad brushes.
Curated art supply recommendations from Karen's studio. Every product here has been used on actual paintings you can see in the gallery above.
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