About the Artist
Karyn Neklason is a self-taught watercolor artist whose work explores the resonance between nature, memory, and abstraction. After years working in photography, mosaic, and collage, she turned to watercolor as a medium that embraces unpredictability, intuition, and organic form.
Her paintings emerge through an exploratory process, allowing pigment, water, and gravity to shape flowing textures and dynamic forms. While inspired by landscape and natural systems, her work leans toward abstraction, inviting viewers into spaces that feel both familiar and dreamlike.
Texture plays a central role in her practice, reflecting the ways light, weather, and time leave their mark on the natural world. She approaches each painting as a living process — one that evolves through attention, patience, and responsiveness to materials.
Karyn's work has been exhibited in juried and curated shows including Treasure Valley Artists Alliance OPUS 2025, Viv-ID, Purple+, The Art Source Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition, and Arts Alive! in Humboldt County, California. She is a member of the Treasure Valley Artists Alliance and the Idaho Watercolor Society.
© 2025 Karyn Neklason. All artwork and images are the property of Karyn Joy Art and may not be reproduced or used without permission.
