Meet the Artist

Karolyn Petersson (she/her/hers)
With knives and colour palettes in hand, Karolyn Petersson is an Ojibwe-Swedish visual artist who creates magnetic and textured pieces that mirror how she engages the world around her. As the daughter of visually impaired parents, a surgical nurse and an artist, Karolyn blends together her passion for art, with her medical training to increase access to art and bring paintings to the fingertips of visually impaired communities. Her talent for creative expression was evident at an early age, and her artistic practice was reinvigorated and formalized during the phases of isolation and introspection of the early COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, Karolyn participated in an art battle where she produced an original painting on a skateboard deck to fundraise for the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund. Recently, London Arts Council purchased two original paintings by Karolyn for their permanent Indigenous Arts Collection with an opening show happening in Spring 2024. Currently, Karolyn is rooting herself firmly in her artistic style. Karolyn believes in the healing power of arts and is working towards continuing to bridge relationships through art in her own art therapy practice.
