Karen
Atkins
Born on the outskirts of Melbourne, Karen has drawn and painted all
her life.
After completing studies at Monash University and Hawthorn Institute
of Education in Melbourne, she went to North-Western Victoria to teach.
During the ten years she spent there, she fell in love with the huge
expanses of sky and land of Australia’s interior.
Constantly painting, she also spent time droving, working as a Shearer’s
‘rouseabout’ as well as the regular calendar chores associated
with life on a sheep and wheat farm.
Karen was artist-in-residence at St Michael’s School and found
the interaction with, and enthusiasm of the students, enormously fulfilling
and an integral learning step in her own path to becoming an artist.
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