Karin Gable has been working as a professional artist since 1973. As a teen, she worked at a print shop and a weekly newspaper. Capitalizing on her education as both a fine artist and a graphic designer, she opened her own studio in 1978. Her specialties have evolved over her career from traditional print advertising and graphic design, to sign painting and illustration, to a more narrow focus on calligraphy and hand-lettered arts: invitations, envelope addressing, and now focusing more on custom certificates, and greeting cards. She presently takes commissions on a part time basis.

For Karin, drawing was always a favourite pastime, beginning with decorating her bedroom door with a pencil drawing at a very tender age. Always intrigued by letterforms, she practiced perfecting her handwriting in elementary school. An influential high school art teacher first introduced her to calligraphy, and not only showed her that art could become a career, but also set her on a path to study with some of the world's top lettering artists. Honing her skills as a calligrapher in many lettering styles for over 45 years, she enjoys continually learning and developing new techniques in many art forms. Her latest artistic explorations have been in detailed colourful designs as well as watercolour painting.

She began designing her own greeting cards at the age of 16, officially calling them karin kards. 

Clients have included: Follow Your Heart Natural Foods & Cafe, International Cinematographers Guild, Milken Family Foundation, UCLA, CSUN, GC Jung Institute, the WAFC, and many corporatations as well as numerous celebrities over the years.

Karin has been an active member of the Society for Calligraphy, Southern California since 1992. She has served as chair of the San Fernando Valley Regional Group, designed workshop flyers for the guild, and served on the planning committee for the annual Letters California Style conference.  She continues to volunteer as co-editor of the SfC Bulletin newsletter.