Karin Ann Tesdorf has been involved with design and colour all her working life. She graduated as an interior architect from Stockholm's Konstfackskola, now Universtity of Industrial Arts. Karin Ann is a prolific and creative printmaker. She has worked in many media including water colour, mixed media and drawing but print making is the most enduring of her artistic activities.

Karin Ann’s work celebrates a broad range of subject matter and the things she loves. She has taken part in several Sydney and interstate exhibitions. She has authored two bilingual children’s books and illustrated them with her striking and original black and white lino prints.