Artist Statement

Ingrid Katarina Karlsson is known as a narrative artist telling stories through mixed media art. Subject matter can be inspired by memories, experiences, words, places, and more recently biodiversity. Her favoured techniques create rich, colourful, textures using mono printing on paper in crystalline watercolour, layering, machine stitching and occasionally making marks in other colour media. Words are often incorporated adding both texture and another dimension to the visual elements.
In 2017 Ingrid was invited to feature on BBC’s Country File as a narrative artist resident in the Peak District. Filming took place on location in the High Peak as well as in her own studio setting working with Ellie Harrison.
Recent themes include place mapping, developed as visual documentation of places encountered with an emphasis on the patterns of the landscape, its symbols and language. Another series evolved telling the story of the artist's personal journey in twelve chapters, "Becoming Real", using words and birds to aid the narrative.
During the pandemic Ingrid turned her focus to local landscapes and the environment around us, especially the demise of endangered species such as birds, plants, small mammals and butterflies. This led to a series entitled Habitat comprising some 25 pieces of work.