Conveying a lively sense of movement in dynamic color, Karen LeGault's still-life watercolors celebrate the bounty of life in flowing compositions of fruits, vegetables, garden flowers mixed with common kitchen items like graters, garlic presses, dishware, silver plates and pitchers.

The artists' self portrait, along with the room she is painting in, can be found in reflections in the silver teapot in several of the paintings, thereby bringing in the dimension of the space behind the "viewer".  Reflecting LeGault's longtime interest in integrating Eastern concepts and techniques, the choices of what goes into each painting are based on balancing “yin” and “yang” and the five elements, -  fire, wood, earth, metal and water, both in color and in the materials substances represented.

One of the ideas of Chinese brush is that paintings are infused with a life force, or chi. This is a path she identifies as “the breath of the dragon,” moving the viewers eye both in and out of the depth of the picture, weaving between the objects portrayed, as well as circling infinitely into and through the surface of the picture plane. To accomplish this she places her subjects at the edges of the paper in strategic spots, to lead the eye back in. She hopes what you see is indeed a feast for the eyes.