Karen Tamminga-Paton
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  • About
  • Gallery
    • Recent Works
  • Shop
    • Available Originals
    • Reproductions
    • Retail Locations
  • Collaborations
    • PeaceTalks
    • Personalized Family Tree Painting
    • Flight of the Corvids
    • The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
  • Contact
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​PEACETALKS


Hard conversations about hard things.

Themes:  The Middle East . Words of Repair . Global Peace . Justice . Everyone's Work

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Art Collaborations 

​Collaboration is a by-product of being in community.  Combine three decades of teaching art, living in a small town, a few golden opportunities, and it happens quite naturally.  I learned to be less protective of my work, more invitational and curious instead, and found myself saying out loud, well, let’s just see where this thing takes us, shall we?  Here are some of my favourite projects, photo album style, which came together because all kinds of different people so generously participated.
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​The PERSONALIZED FAMILY TREE


Interested in a personalized commission?  Collaborate with me to create something meaningful for you.  

Themes:  Family Narrative . Connection . Trees
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​OCTOPUS, OCEANS and US

A large octopus installation to encourage community engagement at the IMPAC5 (Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress) conference in Vancouver, B.C. and commissioned by COLC (Canadian Literacy Coalition).
(plumbers pipes, irrigation tubes, wire fencing materials, orange tarp,  spray paint, tyvek wristbands; 50'x10')

Themes:  Ocean . Sustainability . Marine Protection . Indigenous Conservation . Culture . Dialogue
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​WHAT FLOATS MY BOAT

2 birch panels (acrylic and paper sails; 48x24 diptych) and a dialogue about hope.
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Themes:  Community Building . Conversation  . Vulnerability
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​Left Wing + Right Wing = Lift

Five birch panels of a golden eagle in flight (acrylic and mixed media;  4'x16') that explores what matters to us in governance.  
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Themes:  Politics . Civil Dialogue . Public Art . Governance

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The CONVERSATION

Three separate unstretched canvases (acrylic, collaged papers, permanent markers;  8'x22'), commissioned by COLC (Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition)
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​Themes:  Ocean . Sustainability . Creation Care . Dialogue
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​FLIGHT OF THE CORVIDS
 

An installation and mural group project created at the Crowsnest Pass Public Art Gallery in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada

Themes:  Corvids . Celebration of Place . Crowsnest Pass . Public Art
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LIFELINE

Grumman canoe (acrylic, river stones, red yarn;  17')
Themes:  Relationships . Endurance . Team . Community . Expression
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#BELOVED

Three birch panels (acrylic;  8'x12')
Themes:  Community . Support . Identity . Helping Hands . Relationship
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LIVING BETWEEN the TREES

Six attached birch panels (acrylic and 340 individual leaves designed and created by members of the church congregation;  9'x18')
Themes:  Community . Creativity . Collaboration . Process . Faith
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WORK IN PROGRESS

Framed canvas (acrylic, embroidered threads;  72"x28")
Themes:  Process . Creative Process . Structure . Form
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THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

Three self-portraits by my three daughters when they were very young, glazed onto a large canvas. 

Themes:  Young Artists . At Home in the Studio . Validating Early Work
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 Copyright 2024 Karen Tamminga-Paton.    Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada
All rights reserved including the right to reproduce and sell images based on her art.