About Karron
Meet the Artist
Karron Nottingham is a sculptress working in mixed media relief — building form from foam, cardboard, and a handmade paper technique she has developed over more than four decades in the studio. Her constructions live at the edge of painting and sculpture, dimensional works rooted in folklore, instinct, and the natural world.
Karron has been recognized both nationally and internationally for her mixed media constructions, as well as for her lectures and seminars on creative content.
Artist
Statement
I am a sculptress working in relief — building form from foam, cardboard, and a handmade paper technique I've developed over decades of studio practice. My constructions live between painting and sculpture: surfaces that push outward into real space, edges that radiate and interrupt the wall they hang on. I'm drawn to imagery rooted in folklore and instinct — figures, animals, water, the natural world — rendered not as illustration, but as something closer to artifact. Each piece begins as raw material and is built up, layer by layer, until it holds weight and shadow the way a painting never can. After more than 40 years in the studio, I still return to the same question: how much can a surface hold before it becomes something else entirely?
Off the Wall Studio
Karron is the Director and Instructor of Off The Wall Studio, "A Learning Environment for the Young at Art," which she founded in Hawaii in 1983 to offer art enrichment programs to students of all ages. The studio later opened locations in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1996–2012) and Stillwater, Minnesota (2011–2025). While the brick-and-mortar studio has since closed, Off The Wall continues through online instruction and in-person classes at your site.
For over 40 years, Karron has shared her love of art with students of all ages and abilities, and has served as Artist in Residence at Stillwater Area Schools (MN) for more than 28 years.
She is a dynamic speaker with extensive experience in art education, enthusiastically embracing the development of self. That ethos — valuing diversity, personal growth, experimentation, and community engagement through creative expression — defines both her studio practice and her classroom.