About karin_foreman@yahoo.com

Karin Foreman is a Swiss-born Santa Rosa Valley-based freelance artist. Her background includes degrees in graphic design and fine arts. After founding “Art from the Heart”, she exhibited in local art shows. Since the birth of her daughter, she moved on as an independent contractor working from home. She creates fine art and graphic designs. Karin is also an event and award-winning nature and travel photographer. She is often described as being able to capture the essence of the moment. After studying Photoshop in 2002 she’s been specializing in digital art. Her new passion is photomontage-based digital paintings combining her two passions—photography and fine art. Foreman has worked in many different mediums like pastels, prismacolor, pencil, pen & ink, charcoal, acrylics, and especially in mixed media. She has also produced numerous pieces through the art of traditional printmaking—a method that dates back to the Middle Ages. They include linocuts, mezzotints, monoprints, zinc and solar etchings printed on hand-made paper and bark. Many of her prints grace private homes in the United States and Europe. Karin has created a wide variety of illustrations and layouts for book-, CD- and DVD-covers, brochures, magazines, promotional items, and trade show posters. She has fashioned business cards, logos, and custom invitations & announcements as well as a series of children’s characters. Karin’s work has been published in various magazines and has been featured in many exhibitions. She has also translated documents from German into English which were published in the book The Camp Women.