Karen Kangas Repka, Garden State Watercolor Society Signature Member

Artist Statement


A lifelong artist, Ms.Repka began private art lessons as a child and pursued art into adulthood as she earned a Masters degree in The Arts and Education from Wm.Paterson University. Her art was put on hold while raising a family and teaching elementary education, but upon retirement she has been able to focus on her early passion. Classes in photography, printmaking and watercolor, mostly from Princeton Arts Council, have led to juried selection at Ellarslie, Grounds for Sculpture, W. Windsor Arts Council, Phillips Mill Juried Show, Trenton Artworks, and Garden State Watercolor Society where she is a signature member. Karen loves to combine her love of photography and art by creating works based on her photographic compositions. During the summer of 2023 Ms. Repka was featured in a solo show at The Watershed Institute ’s gallery in Pennington NJ.


Karen Kangas Repka (b. 1947, USA)
repka.karen@gmail.com, 908-500-5732

William Paterson University, M.Ed, Elementary Ed and the Arts, 1979
Muhlenberg College, B.A. English and Elementary Education


Current Shows









Juried Art Exhibits:

Ellarslie — Printmaking Show - Fall 2015
Ellarslie Open 35 - Spring 2018
Ellarslie Open 37/38 -Summer 2021
Ellarslie Open 39 - Summer 2022
Ellarslie Open 40 - Summer 2023
Mercer County Photography Show -Ellarslie—Fall 2022


West Windsor Arts Council - Members’ Juried Show- Summer 2016
Spring 2020 (virtual)
Members’ Juried Show -Spring 2023


Grounds for Sculpture Member Musings - Fall 2016, Fall 2021


Trenton Artworks 5th Annual Print Exhibition - Spring 2018


Phillips Mill - 88th Juried Art Show - Fall 2017
89th Juried Art Show , Fall 2019
92nd Juried Show-Fall 2021
93rd Juried Show-Fall 2022
94th Juried Show-Fall 2023


D&R Greenway Land Trust Juried Art Exhibit - “Lovely as a Tree” - Winter 2019


Garden State Watercolor Society Juried Show
“ Recovery of the Delaware” - D&R Greenway Trust 2021
Farmstead Arts Center, Yardley, PA- Fall 2022
“ Extinction” D&R Greenway Trust. Princeton NJ -Summer 2023

GSWS 2023 Member Exhibition, Virtual - November 11-January 2024 - See video. 

GSWS 2024 54th Open Middletown Arts Center Exhibition Dates: April 8- May 11, 2024 


Virtual International Shows:
FUSION Art’s 6th Waterscapes 2021
BIAFARIN “Extinction” 2021


Solo Art Show-“Nature Art” Comprised of 33 works -Summer 2023

The Watershed Institute,  Pennington NJ

About