Karen Stiehl Osborn is a mixed media artist, working primarily with textiles and paper. 

Her colorful, abstract textile artwork is created from cloth that she hand paints and dyes.  Layer upon layer of color, text and images are added with surface design and printing techniques.

Her mixed media collages frequently include her own painted and dyed cloth as well as a variety of found and created papers.  One of her current fascinations involves the use of beeswax to layer an encaustic style of collage.

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.

 

"Graffiti #1"