Karan paints in pastel, watercolour, mixed media and acrylic.  

In 2020 she was a finalist in the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize which is currently viewing as an online exhibition. 

 In 2019 she was a finalist in the Down Our Garden Path Exhibition and Award.

In September 2018 she was awarded the Gold Award for Illustration by the Australasian Religious Press Association.

In August 2018 she held a successful solo exhibition of watercolour and mixed media works during SALA titled 'A Splinter of Iceland in My Art' featuring a body of new work related to travels in Iceland in 2017.

Karan was a finalist in the Solar Art Prize in 2018.

In 2017 she was awarded Second prize in the Pastel Artists of SA exhibition 'SA in Pastel' awarded by Trevor Newman.

Throughout 2013-15 Karan contributed to visual art projects for the then Moderator of the Uniting Church in SA, Dr Deidre Palmer. 

Karan a member of the Visual Arts Educators of South Australia ( VAESA ) 

In her working life she has worked across government and non-government schools as a primary school teacher and does some tutoring at Uni SA in pre service primary teacher education.