Karen Copley earned two degrees in graphic design and communications in her native North Carolina and has been working in the commercial side of the arts all of her adult life. She has worked as a graphic designer, photographer, copy writer and creative director. An avid outdoors woman, her passion is kayaking, skiing, wildlife and nature. Alaska captured her and her husband while on vacation and never released them. They decided to take a chance, sold their house and made the move north. Painting has always been a pleasure and escape from the deadlines of...more