Welcome to My Page and My Art Artist's Resume Artist's Bio Karen Poirier-Brode lives in Sacramento, CA. She hails from Canada, where she spent her formative years in the Prairies and young adulthood as a student in Montreal. She left Canada for California when her then-husband wanted to move home; he made the idea enticing promising that she would have to drive to the snow. Karen credits hours exploring the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the many art galleries of that city, helping preserve her sanity during the rigors of her medical education. She explores various mediums in her work and prefers working with texture in multi-media collages, ceramics, and relief printing. Color and pattern are treasured areas of exploration, watercolor is a recent interest, and photography is another favorite medium. Most of her current work focuses on the human face and form. Karen says, “I draw on personal and family experiences for my art, but often I make art for art’s sake.