Karlyn Berg

I graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, where I worked primarily with acrylic, oil, and printmaking. However, the collage medium became my passion and has been the main focus of my work as an artist for 56 years. I approach the collage medium as a painting not as an assembly of images. I use hand-cut paper, transfer images, rubbings, gold leaf, transfer, and acrylics. I live in the woods of Northern Minnesota. The connection between, humans, animals, and wilderness is important to me and essential to the spirit of my visual art. I do not attempt to depict nature’s reality but instead create abstract visual landscapes using shapes, colors, forms, and images. I try to discover and express visually the creative inspirational power of the natural world that cannot be portrayed by words alone. Collage is an associative, nonlinear mode of creating. It can tell a story by incorporating shapes,

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