2026 June Guild Meeting: Round Robin swith Karen Stockwell

Round Robins

with Karen Stockwell

An award-winning artist, Karen has been making art for most of her life, but the love of color and texture became her passion and she turned to textile art, often using her own hand-dyed silks and cottons in her pieces.  

Her work has been in major national and international shows as well as being in corporate and private collections, books, magazines, calendar.  She teaches & lectures around the U.S., writes articles and designs patterns.  She has also been a guest artist on many cruise ships, teaching jewelry, quilting and making teddy bears, most notably as artist-in-residence on Crystal Serenity for almost 5 months.  Loving the travel, the colors and ethnic elements of places she’s visited have influenced her work.  Lately, her art alternates between realistic wall pieces—landscapes, people, animals—and colorful graphic contemporary pieces. 

A Michigan transplant who was in FL for 40 years, she now lives in the mountains of Western NC, an area rich in creativity and art, with her husband, Van, and Sheltie, Rocky.