GESTURES

This body of work sees Karen pare back all but the essential; colour and gesture. Her marks are gestures. Expressions of her whole body, created not by timid, cautious movements of her fingers or hands, but with sweeping gestures of arm and body. Passionate sweepings of paint ladened bristles, charcoal, pencil or conte across carefully prepared linen or paper. The works are abstract expressions of the feelings associated with being. The paintings nurture a dialogue between the internal and external environment, eschewing pre-existing ideas of what that environment is, or should be. The paintings investigate passion and intimacy and convey the inextricable relationship of both colour and gestural mark making to our emotions.