About Me

Meet Karen Wynne Mackay – an abstract artist whose vibrant, textured works are all about emotion, movement, and discovery. Blending calligraphic influences with rich layers of colour and mark-making, Karen creates pieces that feel alive and deeply intuitive.

Karen Wynne Mackay

Karen Wynne Mackay is an abstract artist.  Her paintings are deeply manipulated surfaces, intertwined with coloured abstract markings, that emanate from her calligraphic influences.   She uses fluid colourful layers, strong calligraphic marks made with handmade tools and various media, allowing the layers to conceal and then reveal until the composition is complete.   It’s a process of discovery, pain and beauty.

Meet Karen Wynne Mackay – a Stittsville-based abstract artist whose vibrant, textured works are all about emotion, movement, and discovery. Blending calligraphic influences with rich layers of colour and mark-making, Karen creates pieces that feel alive and deeply intuitive.

Inspired by nature, music, and the places she’s called home—from Montreal and Hudson to Ottawa’s west end—her creative process is a dance of layering, revealing, and refining using handmade tools and mixed media.

Her art lives in collections across Canada and the U.S., and even in the Ontario Legislature. Karen’s also a proud member of Galerie Old Chelsea and shares her passion through workshops in abstract art and expressive mark making.

For a full Bio please contact me. The contact button is right at the top of the page.

 Shows and Exhibits

Galerie Old Chelsea-Chelsea Quebec

Wallspace Gallery- Twelve by Twelve Show- Ottawa Ontario

Chase Art Gallery - Beaconsfield, Montreal Quebec

Moulin Wakefield Mill- Wakefield, Quebec

Leslie Grove Gallery - Toronto, Ontario

Gallery 112- City of Ottawa Show

Glebe Fine Art Show- Glebe Ottawa

Kanata Civic Art Gallery - Kanata Ontario

Rothwell Gallery, 1718 Montreal Rd, Ottawa, ON 

Riverdale Art Walk Toronto Ontario

The New Art Festival- Ottawa , Ontario

Artworks Perth Studio Tour - Perth, Ontario

Interview with Bold Journey

https://boldjourney.com/news/meet-karen-wynne-mackay/

All art work displayed on this site is available for purchase (except those labelled as Sold).