Karen Charatan creates pen, brush, and drawn lettering as well as calligraphic paintings.

Over the past 30 years, her work has ranged from advertising lettering and greeting card design to point-of-purchase displays, murals and sign design. She has taught brush lettering, business card design and sign writing for international lettering arts conferences and for many calligraphy guilds in the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan. Karen has been showing her abstract work in the Art of Ink exhibitions since 2000. Three of her works are included in the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama.