Why the change in my approach, the ways in which I engage my art? I had come to the realization in recent years that I needed my own ways to develop concepts in my work, embodying distinct differences from the manner in which I had always created.

What has emerged is an evolved way in which I let the elements of color, line, form and glassiness give voice to my subject, in a deep-seated effort to share what I ponder.

Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen