Karen Baden Thapa

www.karenbadenthapa.art
Karen Baden Thapa was born in Los Angeles and currently live in the SF Bay Area city of Lafayette, CA. She is interested in both French and Art so she spend a year at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris studying art history. She returned to California and entered U.C. Berkeley where she got her B.A. in the Practice of Art. During this time period she discovered the joy of drawing on a litho stone and began to explore printmaking. Eventually, she worked on copper plates, zinc plates and poly plates and works in several different printmaking methods including monotypes, monoprints, etching, dry point and chine colle.