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
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Recent Works

**  If you are interested in purchasing an ORIGINAL PAINTING,  ​click here for details,
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For ART CARDS and PRINTS of many of these pieces, click ​HERE.
Welcome!  Below, you are invited to scroll through my current work.  My most recent pieces are generally at the top.  If you are curious about the story behind an available painting, click here to read my artist's statements. For a more comprehensive exploration of my work over the years, click here.
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"Dissolving Borders" (36x24, acrylic on wood-framed canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Requium for a Tree" (60x24, acrylic on canvas) SOLD *Note: Prints available!
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"These Spaces Between Us" (30x12, acrylic, collaged papers and Posca pens on canvas) SOLD
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"Through a Veil of Tears" (30x40, acrylic and collaged papers on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"We Are Kin" (48x36, acrylic on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Heron: Awaken" (24x36, acrylic on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Heron: Contemplative" (24x20, acrylic on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Heron: Seeker" (24x48. acrylic on canvas) AVAILABLE
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Holy Surprise (40x12, acrylic and collaged papers on canvas) AVAILABLE
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Rage Against the Storm (20x24, acrylic on unstretched canvas) SOLD
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"PeaceTalks" (30x64, acrylic on two canvases) See COLLABORTATIONS for how it is used to encourage dialogue about the events in Palestine.
For more about this installation, "PeaceTalks":  click here

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"Be Still" (20x24, acrylic on canvas) SOLD
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"A Small Cup of Mercy " (16x12, acrylic on canvas) AVAILABLE


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This Weight We Carry (48x36, acrylic, collaged papers on unstretched canvas) AVAILABLE

House Sparrow Series

The tough and tenacious house sparrow comes from the Old Country where it inhabits cinderblock holes and crumbling brick, small landings on rain gutters and under awnings.  They exasperate and inspire.  They quarrel incessantly, take over the nests of native birds, claim properties not their own and live almost anywhere they find people.  Do I like them?  Sort of.  They perplex me. They are the perfect metaphor for colonization - something I grapple with in this small body of work.
"Celebration and Sorrow Dance the Tango I" (12x16, mixed media on Arches watercolour paper glazed onto canvas) AVAILABEL
"Celebration and Sorrow Dance the Tango II" (16x12, mixed media on Arches watercolour paper with maple key glazed onto canvas) SOLD
"There Was A Time" (20x20, mixed media on paper glazed onto canvas) SOLD
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"Cadence" (10x18, acrylic and embroidery thread on two canvases) AVAILABLE
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"In Search of a New Narrative" (36x29 acrylic on black framed canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Flight Paths" (18x24, acrylic and thread on unstretched, raw canvas) permanent collection of Chateau d'Orquevaux, France
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"Glimpses of Blue" (36x12, acrylic on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Duet: Red-Eyed Tree Frog With Agami Heron" (acrylic on handmade violin, fundraiser for the Roxy Theatre, Coleman, Alberta)
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"Standing On A Rock" (72x27, acrylic on plywood) SOLD
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"Healing Place" (diptych, 30x24 each, acrylic on unstretched canvas) SOLD
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"It's Always A Bigger Story" (16x11.5, acrylic on illustration board, glazed on to birch panel) SOLD
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"It's Always A Bigger Story" (detail)
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"My Three Companions: Tenderness, Outrage and Lament" (30x40, acrylic on birch panel) SOLD
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"Descent" (20x20, acrylic on canvas) SOLD
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"Encounters With the Divine (We Are Prodigal)" 40x16, acrylic on canvas AVAILABLE
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"Encounters With the Divine (We Listen)" (18x24, acrylic on canvas) SOLD
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"Encounters With the Divine (We Wait)" (24x18, acrylic and collaged paper on canvas) SOLD
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"Encounters With the Divine (We Wrestle)" (30x24, acrylic on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Holy Dark" (30x24, acrylic on canvas) SOLD
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"Tree and Wall Begin the Arduous Task of Trying to Understand Each Other" (15x30, acrylic and raw canvas on canvas) SOLD
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"Matriarch" (48x84, diptych, acrylic and handmade papers on canvas) SOLD
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"Descant " (36x52, triptcyh - acrylic, inks and Japanese paper on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Coordinates" (48x84 triptych - acrylic, collaged papers, dirt and paint markers on 3 canvases) NFS
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"I Hear With An Accent" 48x36, acrylic, gold leaf, collaged papers, inks on birch panel SOLD
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"Treehugger: Black Cottonwood With Lee-Anne" 64x64, acrylic on 4 separate canvases (Note: for easier viewing the canvases have been digitally "stitched" together) AVAILABLE
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"In the Field of Uncertainty " 50x24, acrylic on two canvases SOLD
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"Hope Blesses Seven Generations" 36x24, acrylic on canvas NFS
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"A Thousand Cuts" 40x30, acrylic and collaged topographical maps on canvas. SOLD
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"Respite" (30x40, acrylic and handmade paper on canvas) SOLD
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"Arpeggios With Flowers" (30x60, acrylic, collaged wallpaper and table napkins on canvas) AVAILABLE
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"Beauty That Breaks the Heart" (24x18, acrylic and collaged papers on birch panel) SOLD
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"Treehugger: White Oak With Nel" (48x36, acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas) SOLD
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"Journey With Flowers No. 10" (16x20, acrylic and collaged wallpaper on wood framed birch panel) SOLD
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"Journey With Flowers No. 4" (16x13, acrylic and collaged wallpaper on birch panel) SOLD
Click "Boats" on the Gallery page to see the complete series of boats with flowers; one painting for each month of living through this global pandemic.  ​
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"Held (and not alone)" (10x20, mixed media, acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas) SOLD
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"Held Above the Stars" (10x20, mixed media, acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas) SOLD
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"Invisible Made Visible" (10x20, mixed media, acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas) SOLD
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"Beautiful Blinders" (18x24, acrylic and mixed media on framed canvas) SOLD
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"I Carry Flowers With Me" (30x12, diptych, acrylic and wallpaper on canvas) SOLD
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Central panel from "Left Wing + Right Wing = Lift" project (click the image to learn more) (30x30, acrylic on birch panel) See "COLLABORATIONS" for the story on this piece.
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"Witness II" (16x20, acrylic on birch panel) SOLD
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"The Conversation (Humpback Whale)" (84x60, acrylic on unstretched canvas) (click the image to learn more)
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"The Conversation (Humanity)"(60x48, acrylic on unstretched canvas) (click the image to learn more)
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"Evening Wind" (48x36, acrylic on gallery-wrap canvas) SOLD
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"Love Covers" (24x48, acrylic and silverleaf on canvas) SOLD
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"Confluence" (48x36, acrylic on birch panel) SOLD
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"Crowning Glory" (24x30, acrylic, silverleaf, handmade papers on birch panel) SOLD
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"Gathering Graces for the Next Generation" (36x36, acrylic on canvas) NFS
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"Isle of Barra" (12x24, mixed media on canvas) SOLD
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"Prayer for Four" (36x24, acrylic on framed canvas) AVAILABLE
Most of the images in this gallery can be made into custom fine art reproductions, please visit this page for more information.

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 Copyright 2024 Karen Tamminga-Paton.    Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada
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