Meet Karen Sikie! Karen currently has a collection from her Butterfly Messenger series of collage/rubbings on display at Tin Top. If you haven't seen these gorgeous pieces please come by! Karen was born and raised in southern California. Out of high school she attended UCLA as a French major. It was there she discovered Gustav Klimt, Ernst Haeckel, Egon Schiele, William Morris and Alponse Mucha and the dormant artist was awakened. She left UCLA and pursued an independent study program at El Camino College. She conducted life drawing sessions in her apartment and surrounded herself with art by working as a framer and in a local art galleries. As a framer she was introduce to many types of decorative papers and they began to make their way into her paintings. Soon the papers took over completely and she developed a highly specialize form of collage she calls “Paper Mosaics”. She then began working with interior designers installing “Paper Mosaic” murals in small in...
