Karuna has lived on the Big Sur coast for forty years. She says that there, “the natural undulating mass of the landscape became her muse.” She learned about boldness, force, flow, and fluidity from nature. As a non-tradition watercolorist she focused on the abstract possibilities’ in her washes’. “Then in 2004, I made two creative life shifts. The first was to use acrylics. Acrylic paints stabilized my watercolor process. The second shift was in accepting the truth-I must paint!”

“I was inspired when I read what Rilke wrote, ‘A creative artist must be a world within herself and in nature to which she has betrothed herself’.”

Currently in 2010 I am expanding my possibilities by painting on Yupo, a tree-free synthetic paper, combining watercolor washes, acrylic, and pastels.

“I have learned to embrace what I love. I live in and love Big Sur and love to paint. Henry Miller, my fellow New Yorker described Big Sur as, ‘Nature smiling at herself in the mirror of eternity.’ Nature does smile at us here. If Big Sur is a mirror then I am part of that reflection.”