Email: Karen Stiehl Osborn
Website: http://www.KarenStiehlOsborn.com

Karen Stiehl Osborn is an award-winning mixed media artist, working primarily with cloth and paper. Her collages frequently include her own painted and dyed cloth as well as a variety of found and created papers. Layer upon layer of color, text and images are added with surface design and printing techniques. Her work has appeared in publications, exhibitions and galleries around the world and is in private and museum collections in the United States, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Mexico and New Zealand.
"My current interest is in creating mixed media collages --- combining cloth, paper and photographs with paint and ink to create artwork that first attracts the viewer with its colors and patterns, and then draws them in to scrutinize the individual details."

Artist Statement: This collage is one in a series of collages that were inspired by photographs that I took in the Old Market district in Omaha and the Plaza district in Kansas City. I love the juxtaposition of the hard lines of metal grates contrasted with the softer lines of crumbling bricks and peeling paint.

Materials: Hand painted cotton cloth, papers,
photographs, ink, acrylic paint.