Recent Work

I love to paint…it’s really that simple. But understanding Sacred Geometry changes everything. Seeing and understanding how these Universal patterns and geometries unfold and progress with such visual simplicity and elegance, gives my work deep significance on more than just a visual level. Some of my paintings come rather quickly, many, not so much…My job is to simply listen to them until they are finished speaking….

The Earth, Moon, Pyramid in the Circle Squared

20” x 24”

50cm x 60cm

Acrylic and Metallics on Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Eadem Mutato Resurgo

3 ft x 4 ft

91cm x 122cm

Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas

Geneva, Switzerland: Private Collection

The Tree of Life

37” x 69”

94cm x 176cm

Oil, Variegated Blue Gold Leaf and Glaze on Canvas

New Zealand: Private Collection

The Path of Return

18” x 24”

46cm x 61cm

Copper Metallic leaf, Variegated Blue Gold Leaf and Glaze on Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

The Secret Scrolls

3ft x 4ft

91cm x 122cm

Acrylic, Copper Leaf and Glaze on Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Golden Mean Spiral #3

27” x 69”

69cm x 176cm

Oil, Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf, Glaze on Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Vesica Piscis

3ft x 4ft

91cm x 122cm

Oil, Gold Leaf and Glaze on Textured Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Origin of Triquetra

20” x 20”

51cm x 51cm

Acrylic and Copper Leaf on Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

The Seed of Life

20” x 20”

51cm x 51cm

Acrylic and Copper Metallic Leaf on Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Genesis Pattern – The Flower of Life

4ft x4ft

122cm x122cm

Oil, Gold Leaf, Variegated Blue Gold Leaf, Glaze on Textured Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Progression

40” x 9 feet

102cm x 275cm

Oil on Textured Canvas

Mount Shasta, California, USA: Private Collection, VP, Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical

The Ghost in the Machine

30” x 40”

76cm x 102cm

Gold Leaf, Enamel, Glaze on Canvas

Berlin, Germany: Private Collection

Monad

8" x 8"

20.5 cm x 20.5 cm

Acrylic & Metallics on Panel Board

Final Study for 6' x 6' Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

The Circle Squared

8” x 8”

20.5cm x 20.5cm

Acrylic and Metallics on Panel

Final Study for 4ft x 4ft canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Vesica Piscis with Square Root of 2, 3 & 5

13” x 9”

33cm x 23cm

Acrylic and Metallics on Illustration Board

Final Study for 4ft x 6ft canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

The Golden Mean Spiral #7

24″ x 30″

60 cm x 76 cm

Oil and Copper Leaf on Textured Canvas

Available from the Artist

"The Primer of Creation - No. 2"

24" x 36"

60 cm x 91 cm

Silver Leaf and Oil on Textured Canvas

Monaco/Eze Private Residential Gallery

Triune

4ft x 4ft

122cm x 122cm

Oil and Gold Leaf on Textured Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

The Great Void – Before Form

3ft x 4ft

91cm x 122cm

Oil and Enamel Paints on Textured Canvas

Kraj, Croatia: Private Collection

The Cross of Divine Proportion

8.5” x 14.5”

22cm x 36cm

Acrylic and Metallics on Panel Board

Florence, Italy, Vatican Diplomat: Private Collection

The Chalice and The Blade

16″ x 25″

41cm x 64cm

Oil and Gold leaf on Textured Canvas

Monaco / Eze: Private Residential Gallery

Resurrection Symbol Set

4' x 6' Canvas

122cm x 170cm

Textured Canvas with Oil and Silver Leaf

Kukljica, Croatia: Private Collection

Pythagorean Musical Harmony - Perfect 4th / Perfect 5th

5ft x 6.5ft

152cm x 197cm

Acrylic and Gesso on Canvas

Manhattan, New York: Private Collection

Golden Mean Spiral 5

24″ x 60″

61 cm x 152 cm

Oil, Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf on Textured Canvas

Available from the Artist

"The Primer of Creation - No.1"

24" x 36"

60 cm x 91 cm

Copper leaf and Oil on Textured Canvas

Monaco/Eze Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Textures

Karen Carty’s paintings are carefully crafted in multiple layers of textures and most often metallic leaf or metallic paints. When viewed personally, they have an extra life and added dimension of depth from the textures and the sheen of reflected light off the metallic leaf. These aspects of Karen’s paintings give her work a presence and an uncommon dimensionality.

Close Up Texture: The Path of Return

Copper and Variegated Gold Leaf

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Texture: Origin of Triquetra

Acrylic and Copper Leaf

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Texture: The Secret Scrolls

Oil and Copper Leaf

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Texture: The Earth, Moon, Pyramid in the Circle Squared

Acrylics and Metallics

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Texture: The Circle Squared

Acrylics and Metallics

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Texture: Genesis Pattern - The Flower of Life

Oil, Gold Leaf, Variegated Blue Gold Leaf

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Texture: Triune

Oil and Gold and Copper Leaf

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

Close Up Texture: Vesica Piscis

Oil and Gold Leaf

Monaco/Eze - Private Residential Gallery

The Archetypes of Human Experience

Sacred Man: The Archetypes of Human Experience:

These pieces are part of a series of 9 paintings executed as Karen began to think in "Archetypes".

It is only by virtue of functioning at a certain "level" of reality that the myriad of experiences we undergo in our lives can be truly understood. The "Archetypal" is concerned with Universal processes, Universal Laws or dynamic patterns which can be considered independently of any structure or form, including those processes which are Universal to the life experience of the Human Being.

The Definition of "Archetype":

A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern, image or experience universally present in individual psyches.

Also: the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied, or on which they are based.

The Evolution of Human Consciousness through Linear Time and Space

24" x 34"

61 cm x 86.5 cm

Oil and Pencil on Paper

How Past Conditioning Creates Present Reality

24" x 34"

61 cm x 86.5 cm

Oil and Pencil on Paper

How the Sixth Sense is encoded in the Human Vehicle

24" x 34"

61 cm x 86.5 cm

Oil and Pencil on Paper

As the Salmon swim...so, through Time...do we Become

24" x 34"

61 cm x 86.5 cm

Oil and Pencil on Paper

The Dreamtime...the Other Crucial Reality System

24" x 34"

61 cm x 86.5 cm

Oil and Pencil on Pape

Divine Union

24" x 34"

61 cm x 86.5 cm

Oil and Pencil on Paper

Icons and Archetypes

Icons & Archetypes - Previous to Karen's recent work in the fascinating ancient Art and Science of Sacred Geometry, Karen executed paintings for numerous private residences, hotels, restaurants, Corporate offices and private collections nationwide, and in Europe.

As she began to understand the Archetypal and Iconic symbols of cultures worldwide, across time and around the world...she began to understand that these archetypal symbols are part of the larger body of knowledge that is Sacred Geometry. This portfolio is composed of several colorful, more playful pieces she executed along the way to her present body of work.

The Universal Eye

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Private Collection : Silicon Valley, California, USA

Man in Duality: in Fear - in Love

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Private Collection: Keyboardist for the Artist "Prince" USA

"Portal # 2"

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Private Collection: Silicon Valley, California, USA

Archetypal Geometries

Previous to her recent work in the fascinating ancient art and science of Sacred Geometry, Karen Carty executed paintings for numerous private residences, Hotels, Restaurants, Corporate offices and private collections nationwide, and in Europe. These paintings were executed in the 1980's, for a hotel in Santa Monica, CA., as she was beginning to play with archetypal geometries for the first time in her work...wondering about their import and origin, throughout time and across cultures, on this planet.

Pyramid

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Pyramids

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Geometric Archetypes

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

The Cube

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Private Collection: Northern California, USA

Platonic Cube

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Beverly Hills

The paintings in this portfolio are from a number of buildings Karen was commissioned to produce work for, in Beverly Hills, California, in the 1980's.

Isosceles Triangles

4 ft x 4 ft

Acrylic on Canvas

The Longford Building, Los Angeles, CA, USA

What She Said

3 ft x 4 ft

Acrylic on Canvas

The Longford Building, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Whispers

4 ft x 3 ft

Acrylic on Canvas

The Longford Building, Los Angeles, A, USA

The Dancer

4 ft x 4 ft

Oil on Panel

Private Collection, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

Just This...

30" x 40"

Oil on Paper

Private Collection, San Francisco, CA, USA

Radisson Huntley

Previous to her recent work in the fascinating ancient art and science of Sacred Geometry, Karen Carty executed paintings for numerous private residences, hotels, restaurants, Corporate offices and private collections nationwide, and in Europe. This is part of a series of 39 paintings executed for the Radisson Huntley Hotel, in Los Angeles in the 1980's.

Memory

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Radisson Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

"Waves of Silence"

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Radisson Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

"Comets #2"

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Radisson Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Moonlight #2

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Radisson Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

More...

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Radisson Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Jazz: All Four

Oil on Paper

30" x 40"

Radisson Huntley Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Classical Figures

Previous to Karen's recent work in the fascinating ancient Art and Science of Sacred Geometry, she executed entire collections for numerous hotels, restaurants, Corporate offices and private residences nationwide, and in Europe. She lived half of her first 22 years in Europe...observing and training in the subtle sensitivity of the Great Masters drawings. Karen is thus naturally skilled in re-producing the drawings of the Great Masters, though always life-size in scale, (one of her favorite exercises) for the interiors of numerous estates nationwide.

All classical figure paintings are life-size.

Homage to Raphael

Oil on Canvas

4 ft x 6.5 ft

Private Collection: Beverly Hills, CA, USA

The 3 Graces

Life Size Figures

Tromp L'oleil: Acrylic on Flat Wall

Private Estate: Redding, CA, USA

Close Up - "3 Graces"

Life Size Figure

Tromp L'oleil on Flat Wall

Classical "Hermes" Fountain

Tromp L'oleil: Acrylic on Wall

3 ft. x 5 ft.

Private Estate: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Raphael Female Figure Studies

Life Size Figures - Acrylic on Wall

Private Estate: Cottonwood, CA, USA

Michelangelo Male Figure Study

Acrylic on Wall

Private Estate: Cottonwood, CA, USA

Classical Interior Painting

Over the course of her artistic career, Karen has been commissioned to execute Interior Decorative Painting in many different artistic styles, on the walls, ceilings, and even floors - of many private estates throughout the U.S. The paintings in this portfolio are numerous examples of Karen's love for the classical design motifs of Europe, and expressions of her natural joy in re-producing these classical patterns on the ceilings and walls of private estates nationwide.

Classical Motif: Stove Hood

Acrylic on Plaster

5 ft. x 4 ft.

Private Estate: Cottonwood, CA, USA

Gold Leaf Classical Baroque Ceiling

Gold Leaf on Ceiling

Private Estate: Redding, CA, USA

Classical Motif in Private Bath

Acrylic on Wall

6 ft. x 8 ft.

Private Estate: Northern California, USA

Moroccan Niche

Acrylic on Wall

3 ft. x 5 ft.

Private Estate: Hancock Park, L.A. CA, USA

Gold Leaf & Murals

Over the course of her artistic career, Karen Carty has been commissioned to paint murals in many different artistic styles, on the walls and ceilings of numerous private estates nationwide. The paintings in this portfolio are some examples of murals she's designed and executed throughout her career, including her extensive work in Gold Leaf.

All of the figurative paintings are life size.