Karen Anderson Schwartz is a watermedia artist living in Williamsburg. Originally from California, she moved to Virginia in 1981.
Karen loves to travel and enjoys painting the people, landscapes, and architecture of the places she’s visited, and paints and draws from studio models, sketches and photographs she’s taken.
Karen earned her B.A. in Fine Arts from San Diego State University with a concentration in painting and printmaking. Watermedia painting is the primary focus of her work, although she also paints in aqua oils. She began studying watercolor with Jan Ledbetter in 1997 and has since studied with some of country’s leading watercolorists and collage painters. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows in Virginia and Tennessee.
Karen retired from William & Mary in 2016 and spends her time now painting and doing volunteer work for WCAC and the Virginia Watercolor Society.