Karen Olson
Karen Olson
February's Masterclass on our platform
Forest, Field, Imprint
An embodied approach to presence, paper, and image.
Karen Olson is a lens-based artist, papermaker, and educator whose work explores the relationship between perception, material, and place.
Drawing from her work as a forest therapy guide, photography, and handmade paper practices, her teaching emphasizes attunement, material sensitivity, and process over perfection.
Through workshops, retreats, and online offerings, she invites artists to slow down, listen deeply, and work in collaboration with materials as responsive partners in the creative process.
What if the first material we work with is not paper or image, but our own nervous system?
In this immersive one-hour master class, artist Karen Olson invites participants into a gentle, embodied approach to making one that begins before the hands touch the material.
https://www.stories.karenolsonphotography.com
Rooted in forest therapy as a form of creative grounding, the session moves from guided attunement and perceptual slowing into work with handmade paper and a concept-led photo transfer demonstration.
Through practices that regulate the nervous system and cultivate presence, participants explore how relationship to body, environment, and material shapes both process and outcome. Rather than aiming for control or perfection, the class emphasizes vulnerability, softness, and trace, allowing chance and material intelligence to act as collaborators.
The session offers both practical insight and a renewed way of arriving in creative work one that honors perception, receptivity, and the quiet knowledge held within materials.
Karen Olson
Forest, Field, Imprint
An embodied approach to presence, paper, and image.
19 February, 2026
18.00 CET
On our members platform
