Karen Killian

“With dogs, you don’t need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love.” ~Cynthia Heimel

Watercolor; 21 x 17″
© 1998 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

This print sold out the first time Orvis offered it, in their Christmas catalog 1998.

In the beginning…God created man; but seeing him so feeble, he gave him the dog. -Anonymous

Watercolor; 18 x 12″
Collection of the Artist
©1999 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

This print sold out in the Orvis Christmas catalog 1999

Well, I don’t really know how I got up here! ~Paint (9 weeks)

Watercolor; 12 x 18″
Private Collection
©2000 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

Teddy & Paint
~See? Just close your mouth and be quiet!!

Watercolor; 13 1/2 x 16 3/4″
Collection Douglas
©2001 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

Paint and Alex, the artist’s family in the Berkshires, late summer ’01
Oil; 22 x 30″
Collection of the Artist
© 2002 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

~the good life in Desbarats, Ontario
Oil on Linen; 28 x 22″
Collection Boden
© 2003 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

Oil; 18 x 22″
Private Collection
© 2004 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

Oil on linen; 21 x 12″
Private Collection
© 2004 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

I could look into those eyes forever; it seems that she can see forever…

Oakley, surveying the world ahead
Oil on Linen; 16 x 14″
©2005 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company
Collection of the Artist

Zander, who was actually photographed in the snow in Vermont, which I imagine he much preferred to the fire idea!
Oil on Linen; 17 x 13″
Private Collection
© 2003 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company

Oil; 18 x 14″
Private Collection
© 2000 Karen Killian & The Orvis Company