Karen has been associated with Grizedale Arts since 2000. For A Different Weekend she produced and sited a series of event signs in differing 'folk' styles, and she later appeared as one part of a pantomime horse. Working as People from Off with Anna Best, Simon Poulter and Nina Pope she developed the live webcast, the Festival of Lying in 2001. For Golden-Live in Your Forest she worked with the local Satterthwaite & Rusland Women's Institute to make a jubilee cake, and in 2003 she made Welcome To, a low-fi musical film set in Grizedale Forest, with many local dance groups.

In collaboration with Nina Pope (aka Somewhere) she won the Northern Art Prize in 2008, their show featuring a number of Grizedale works including a multiple depicting an idealised Lawson Park -  Titchy / Kitschy.

Karen works in an occasional free-lance capacity for GA.