$2,550

Karl Mullen, born in Dublin, Ireland, lives and works in the Berkshire Mountains. He has developed his own non-traditional approach to art-making and materials, using walnut oil, raw pigment powder, and a wax medium that coalesces into color-saturated, luminous images. Painting largely by hand, Karl creates distinctive, poetic figures that float on fields of color. The imagery in his paintings is rooted in Irish mythology, family, and dreams.

Mullen's paintings reside in many private collections and are shown in galleries throughout America and Europe, as well as in the annual Outsider Art Fair in New York. Like Dubuffet's art brut, of which "outsider art" is the English approximation, Mullen's paintings privilege the raw over the cooked, spontaneous process over studied composition, the iconic over the naturalistic, and the primitive over the polished.

His work has been showcased on the PBS syndicated TV series Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations and is frequently featured in art/design magazines such as Home Accents and Elle Decor.

28" w x 42" H

A11457