Karina has a BFA from ACAD and has shown in galleries in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. She has been the recipient of an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant and was a steering committee member on the City of Victoria Public Art Policy Review. She makes graphite drawings and mixed media sculptures in her studio at the eclectic Rock Bay Square building in Victoria.

“My artwork depicts places that are known and yet enigmatic. Consider a half-remembered dream of a deep dark wood, a circus, an igloo, a tiny cave, a nest, a world you know the feel of even if you have never been. The creatures I portray are the familiar yet mysterious inhabitants of these places. They embody emotions and vulnerabilities that have become distorted yet are also closer to the truth as sometimes happens in dreams.”