Biography

Karina is a painter living and working in Poole, Dorset. She began her career as a teacher, after studying art and education at university in London. Pursuing her desire to create full time, she went on to study classical drawing at the Sarum Studio atelier in Salisbury, where she developed techniques used by the Old Masters. After discovering cold wax medium, Karina studied for a year at Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall, where she continued to develop and push the boundaries of what oil and cold wax can achieve. Karina’s works are a contemporary response to classicism and reflect the sublime beauty of the natural world, and the emotion that it evokes. She teaches cold wax medium workshops and her work is housed in prestigious private collections in New York, London, and throughout the UK. 

B. Dorset 1985