Designs Inspired by Life:
the art of Karen Grabowski

I experience the world through a visual and emotional connection. To me, life comes down to noticing how our emotions affect the way we engage with the Universe and how our world’s emotions impact the landscape. We are all joined together by shared experiences, and this is what I endeavor to show in my work. It feels like we need more positive, happy experiences in our daily lives - so I work to combine designs and colors that feel joyful and inspiring, yet for the most part remain light-hearted.

Some people write books. Some people create music. People like me create pictures. In the effort and the desire to speak to the human experience, we are sending out messages of hope, love, compassion, and comfort. I think this is true whether the works we create are "high art" or not. There is someone out in the world (maybe you?) who is looking for a moment of light, a breath of air, a reason to laugh or smile or pick ourselves up and take the next step through our day.

Those are the people I think of when I create pictures. (I'm secretly pretty sure that every single human being is that person at some point, right? Money and power and influence don't shield us from being human, as hard as people try to believe that.) In everything I do, I am sending out silent wishes for all beings to be happy, healthy, surrounded by love, and at peace (and by all beings, I include everything on this dear planet: rocks, plants, water, air ... all the infinitely small/large stuff that makes Earth so amazing).