Karen Bokert comes from a rich, international fine art background.  She studied with such renowned artists as Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell, Leo Manso, Charles Schucker, Edward Giobbi, French Impressionist Henry Hensche, Richard Straley, Oskar Kokoschka, William Baziotes and Gabor Peterdi.   “I gained a great freedom of expression during the years I worked as an abstract painter.  And, the rich, pulsating colors of my Impressionist studies can also be seen in my work,” says Bokert.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT
The Way of the White Cloud Series

A white cloud’s way is a pathless path, an awareness without choice.  A white cloud drifts wherever the wind leads it.  It has no specific place to go.  Wherever it reaches, that is its goal.

From where have they come?  What is the being of it?  Where have they gone?

A white cloud is here and now –each moment is total eternity.

Try contemplating a white cloud.  Merge with it.  No mind.  No Resistance.  No Fight.  Nothing to achieve.  Nothing to be lost ­ Just celebrating the moment, the joy, the ecstasy of it.  Just the awareness of being.

These paintings are a visual expressing of these thoughts, which often reveal themselves to the artist.

Karen Bokert

© 1956 Karen Bokert
Self-Portrait, Pastels on Paper, NFS

© 1985 Karen Bokert
Karen Bokert is pictured with her oil on canvas titled   Rhone Valley Spring ( 24” x 29”  oil on canvas, $ 700.  See page 5 for other work done in the 80s & 90s)  at the Retrospective of her work at The Artists Showcase in Chester NJ in 1996


© 2005 Karen Bokert
Way of the White Cloud
40”x 30” oil on canvas,  $ 1,250.