Karen Wilson

Karen retrained as a mature student, gaining a degree in Surface Pattern Textiles, before becoming freelance and designing wallpapers and fabrics, in those days everything was painted by hand in repeat a skill that has been useful when designing award winning ranges of gift wraps for Glick.

It was purely by chance that Karen entered the greeting card world; her agent at the time secured some work designing some ranges for well established publishers. Karen, and her then business partner Claire, enjoyed the brief so much they decided to have a go at publishing themselves and Paper Salad was born.

“Now entering our 20th year we think we finally know what we are doing! It has been a steep learning curve and we have probably made every mistake possible and come out the other side smiling. It is an honour to sit on the GCA board and I feel I have a lot to bring to the table”.