04/22/2026
Meet Karen Levi-Lausa, - one of our local artists featured at Adorn.
She came to painting full time when everything else paused.
Like so many, the pandemic shifted her path overnight, but instead of resisting it, she turned inward and rediscovered the artist that had always been there, just buried beneath everything else. Her first canvases? An old drop cloth left behind by a house painter. No pretense, just instinct.
Her work lives in abstraction, layered with mixed media, oil pastels, Stabilo, charcoal, and fragments of found print. Balance, contrast, and movement drive each piece, while unexpected tools sourced from nature leave marks you can’t quite predict or replicate.