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artist bio
Karen Eames is a semi-abstract landscape artist based in Chandlers Ford in Hampshire. Karen paints in mixed media, oils and acrylics. She grew up in Winchester, Hampshire and draws her inspiration from the landscapes of Hampshire, the west coast of Ireland, Cornwall and other wild landscapes. Karen’s medium changes dependent on the landscape she is trying to capture.
While she developed a career in nursing, she longed to paint and study art. She achieved her lifetime dream when she studied Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and Design graduating with a first class honours degree in Visual Arts in 2004 followed by a masters in Fine Art in 2007.
Karen is inspired by the wild places of this world often sea and rocky shores. She draws on her Celtic origins to give her paintings an untamed emotional and spiritual connection to a place. Her paintings often convey the drama and movement of nature and previous ancestral links with the landscape.
She recently went on a residency to the Burren Art College and the experience of being submerged without distraction in a wild landscape enabled her to develop her practice. Currently, she is responding to the Cornish coastline investigating fine layers which gives a strong sense of rhythm and movement using colour and form to evoke a sense of place.
Karen was a wildcard artist on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year. Her work is in private collections worldwide. She has exhibited extensively in London and the south of England.
Next year she is embarking on a collaboration with musician and composer, Dominic Beeton on a residency in Provence, France.
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