About the Artist

is an award-winning artist, classically trained at Parson’s School of Design in New York, majoring in Illustration.

 That classic background is ever evident in her style, along with her love of capturing the figure and the effects of light in all of her scenes. Her paintings are noted to accentuate the effects of light, adding to their luminosity with her landscapes/skyscapes reflecting the essence of the landmark. Karen’s award-winning paintings have been collected by private and corporate collections, such as Venice City Hall locally and nationally received by a U.S. President.  Her Illustrations have been published nationally in both children’s picture books and distributed in a line of gifts. Notably: Almenara International Art Prize Honorable Mention,  Landscape Semi Finalist in 18th Annual ARC Salon, Landscape Finalist in 17th Annual ARC Salon, NOAPS Winner Best Painting by an Associate Artist Award 34th Best Of America International Exhibit 2024, She is a five time Semi- Finalist Plein Air Magazines Plein Air Salon 2016, 2017, 2019, and twice 2020 as everything from 2nd Place overall, Best Acrylic, Best Oil, Best Outdoor Still Life and Best Floral; Best Landscape, WPSE National Exhibit 2016; 1st Place VAC Summerfest 2016; participant in: Best Of Plein Air exhibit, LPAPA; American Impressionist Society, Small Works Inaugural Exhibit;  Oil Painters of America: National Salon Show 2015, and their 25th Annual National Show; and many Oil Painter Of America National and Regional Exhibits,  Paint the Parks & Paint America National Exhibits, 2006 recipient of the Muses Award, Exhibiting Memberships with: Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, Women Artist Of the West, Plein Air Artist Colorado, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association and Women Painters of the South East. She is the founder (2003) of the Venice Plein Air group. She is a Nationally Exhibiting Artist, Published multiple times in Plein Air Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine; American Art Collector, Modern Impressionist Magazine and featured in Plein Air magazine OutdoorPainter.com

"I always feel awestruck when an artist can truly capture light. At capturing that light none can do so better with a figure than Vermeer, or in a landscape like Turner. Few capture expressions with a single brush stroke as Sargent, or illustrate the complete scene with richness of color and figures better than N.C. Wyeth. Cassatt's ability to portray the warmth of a mood is amazing. The Hudson River School artists' ability to portray the scale, atmosphere and light of the landscape before them has always left me with a passion to do the same. There is so much to learn from all the masters.”

Hitt returned to Florida from Washington State in 1995, residing since in Venice. Raising three children as a single parent from 1998, opportunity arose in 2013 to take on the next season in her life. “Bottom line, I wouldn’t have been able to make it out my door, or back to my door without family and friends. I am blessed with more of them than I deserve. I owe them a LOT! These are debts of kindness and finances that I am looking forward to repaying. I have jested that ‘baby turned 22 and momma took a road trip’ – a really big road trip. My 82-year-old dad and 22-year-old son were placed in charge of my house while I was away. Little did they know, they both were in charge of keeping an eye on the other. It seemed like the best plan at the time, filling a need for each of us. So, home-front taken care of: Check.” Karen Ann, Hitt the road!

The one-woman exhibit  "At That Moment..." (2/27-3/20/2015) an exhibit two and a half years in the making. Featuring the plein air paintings from her five month, 21,000-mile solo journey crisscrossing the U.S.A. en plein air, the people and the places all along the way displayed at where it all began, the Venice Art Center’s  Pat Buster Gallery/Museum, a major venue where 70 paintings displayed from 4-by-6-inch plein air works to 40-by-60-inch studio paintings.

PRESENTLY

Karen Ann’s work is represented by:

 Hughes Gallery Inc,  of Boca Grande FL

Missi & Co. / Fortunate Finds Antiques & Gallery, Tryon NC

Collectors Gallery Venice FL

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Honored by these recent awards of Studio Paintings 2020:

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newest awards shall be updated...soonish 

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