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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, utilizing walnut oil, raw powder pigment and a wax medium that coalesce into color-saturated, luminous images.
Painting largely with his hands, Karl creates distinctive, poetic figures that float on fields of color. The imagery in his paintings is born out of 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, the primitive over the polished.
His work was also showcased in the PBS syndicated TV series Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations and are included frequently in art/design magazines such as Home Accents and Elle Decor.
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, utilizing walnut oil, raw powder pigment and a wax medium that coalesce into color-saturated, luminous images.
Painting largely with his hands, Karl creates distinctive, poetic figures that float on fields of color. The imagery in his paintings is born out of 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, the primitive over the polished.
His work was also showcased in the PBS syndicated TV series Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations and are included frequently in art/design magazines such as Home Accents and Elle Decor.
It's A Wonderful Life, mixed media and collage on paper, 38 x 50 inches
Happy Days, mixed media on paper, 30 x 22 inches
This Bed of Roses, mixed media on paper, 30 x 22 inches
By The Hand, mixed media and wine on paper, 30 x 22 inches
An Encounter, mixed media on paper, 30 x 22 inches
Blackberry Picking, mixed media on paper, 30 x 22 inches
The Spirit Level, mixed media on paper, 30 x 22 inches
Dubliners, oil on canvas, 40 x 54 inches
Let’s Dance, oil on canvas, 38.5x67 inches
Scarf Michael, oil on canvas, 71 x 47 inches
On A Merry Go Round In Heaven, oil on canvas, 62 x 48 inches
Gifts Of Rain, mixed media on paper, 43.375X29.25 inches
Fire In Your Heart, mixed media on paper, 43.375X29.25 inches