PONDERING SERIES​
Available Paintings

​"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of  nature."   Claude Monet

New Available Painting. This was a large puddle at Cockaponset State Forest. Located in the shoreline town where I live. It feels like a pond. Yet, it is flooding from heavy rains. titled, Pondering Xanadu, 36" oil on round wood panel, 2024, $5900.00, Karen Bartone

Currently for sale with Boston Art Inc.. 2024, $5900.00 also, First Place Winner Clinton Art Society, Juror Florence Griswold Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, Summer 2022, painted in my backyard at the pond.

Detail: First Place Winner CAS, Juror Florence Griswold Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, Summer 2022

Installation view of circular paintings in the Three Rivers Community College Solo Exhibition 2019.

Second Place Winner Clinton Art Society, Juror Florence Griswold Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, Summer 2022

Pondering Series, oil on 36" round birch panel

Detail

Me with four 36" round panels, this gives scale to these large paintings.

Pondering endless time in the circle of the sacred cosmos right in my backyard, oil on round 36" panel, Karen Bartone

Pondering and painting the cosmos all summer with the birds and dragonflies, who fortunately eat 100 pounds of Mosquitos each, daily.

Grateful for these mosquito eaters. You can never have enough dragonflies at your side.

Installation view TRCC

Pondering a red barn in my back yard, Originally brown but I painted it red in the painting. However, today it is red in real life. Life imitating art here, lol. 36" oil on round panel.

This abstraction of a puddle uses precious palladium leaf and 24k gold leaf. Why is it upside down, because the reflection is upside down, oil paint on 36" round panel.

Capturing this solo installation at TRCC, a beautiful space for art.

60 inches, 5 foot round panel. This is the largest painting of the series so far. It has been exhibited once at Stillman Gallery. It does not fit in my car and it needs a van to be transported, The next slides shows scale and it being painting En Plein Air, while I was standing on the edge of the pond, where I live.

This 5 foot painting is as tall as me, but handing on the wall it is taller than me.

5 foot painting ready to start, Painting and Pondering at the pond, where I live.

Midway through the painting here. Painting and Pondering at the pond, where I live.

This 48" oil painting with palladium and 24k gold leaf, it is an abstraction of a reflection in the pond, and it leaves me pondering the cosmos, oil on round panel.

Detail of palladium and 24k gold leaf with stitches of paint

Me with this 4 foot painting in the Stillman Gallery, Group Show.

Installation view with varied sizes of my circle paintings, from little to large 6 inches to 48 inches.

Big show with some serious painters Bradley Guarino, Liz Cook and Me.

THE LITTLE SERIES
​​​Available Paintings

"Big things come in small packages." Proverbs 

Middlesex Community College installation 2016

Installation view, Three Rivers Community College Gallery

Installation view, Three Rivers Community College Gallery

Installation view, Three Rivers Community College Gallery

Painting and Pondering on location where I live.

Installation view, city space, New Haven

Detail

Summer studio at the pond, where I live.

IT'S ABOUT TIME FROM MY KITCHEN WINDOW SERIES - TWILIGHT SERIES
​​Available Paintings

"Like people, trees are individuals."   David Hockney

Winter from my kitchen window. Available, 6" x 4", oil on panel, this little gem is available for $400.00.

Watching spring come in from my kitchen window while doing dishes at the kitchen sink. I paint this each spring, Oil on panel, 8" x 10", $400.00

Spring at the green house where things grow more than plant. AwardThird prize, Connecticut Women Artist, Slater Museum. Kathy Malloy. 6" x 8" $400.

Oil on panel, 24" x 30", private collection

"Where There Is Darkness, Let Me Sow Light", St Frances Prayer, In Loving Memory of my Mom, 1925 - 2021, oil on panel, 8" x 10", 2021, Karen Bartone

Living oil a shoreline town I often meditate at the beach but only paint there on occasion. This painting is from the Old Saybrook beach. 10" x 20". $800.00

COASTAL SERIES

"Light is therefore color."  J. M. W. Turner

2023 and 2022  Connecticut State Community College System, Professional Development Grant Awarded to painting a coastal series in New England.  These are two-hour Alla Prima plein air paintings done in Maine, "Alla Prima", "meaning the painting is done in a single sitting". The concept here is about how color expresses the passing of time through changing weather, season and/or time of day. 

Karen Bartone
Art Studio: 54 Brickyard Road, Clinton, CT 06413
Cell: 860-575-4380, Email: [email protected]

Experience the splendor of nature with my enchanting landscape oil paintings. Each piece is unique, offering a glimpse into awe-inspiring scenes. Should you discover a painting that resonates with you, it can be customized to fit seamlessly into your space. Let my art elevate your surroundings to a personalized haven of tranquility.

The natural surroundings of where I live inspire me to create contemporary paintings.  I can customizes your natural surrounds if you desire a commission of where you live.

I am a professional artist. In addition to selling my work, I also teach classes in painting and drawing. My studio is located in Southern New England on the Connecticut shoreline. I am situated less than two hours from New York City and Boston near U.S. Route 1 and I-95.