Karen Eames |
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Based in Chalkhill Studio Olivers Battery, Winchester, Karen originally trained and worked as a nurse and always painted in her spare time, Karen achieved her lifetime dream when she had the opportunity to study Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and Design.
She has exhibited throughout the UK.
Karen’s love for painting continues to develop and her work is often expressive, dreamlike and captures a sense of place .
Karen enjoys working across media including her new paintings on glass. She is trying to explore painting from a deeper level often relating to personal visual experiences of her everyday life. Karen’s painting has a more intuitive approach, which she develops through self reflection and spending time walking her dogs. In the studio she often has her favourite music playing whilst painting as a means of reaching the subconscious. landscapes, skies, countryside and wildlife appear throughout her work along with things that are part of a personal journey and history, the work embraces life experiences from both the past and present, exploring memories and trajectories of everyday life. Karen works in many different mediums and feels it is important to relate it to the landscape or study she is painting.
“Landscapes and skies are often overlooked, they surround us and yet can be missed as we are caught up in our busy lives , I capture them on my phone and sketchbooks on site, I like the idea they are part memory and part real. I have an intuitive approach to painting preferring to explore the colours of dreams rather than reality” They become part real and part of my dreamscape. They allow me to free myself from the reality of the everyday”
She has exhibited throughout the UK.
Karen’s love for painting continues to develop and her work is often expressive, dreamlike and captures a sense of place .
Karen enjoys working across media including her new paintings on glass. She is trying to explore painting from a deeper level often relating to personal visual experiences of her everyday life. Karen’s painting has a more intuitive approach, which she develops through self reflection and spending time walking her dogs. In the studio she often has her favourite music playing whilst painting as a means of reaching the subconscious. landscapes, skies, countryside and wildlife appear throughout her work along with things that are part of a personal journey and history, the work embraces life experiences from both the past and present, exploring memories and trajectories of everyday life. Karen works in many different mediums and feels it is important to relate it to the landscape or study she is painting.
“Landscapes and skies are often overlooked, they surround us and yet can be missed as we are caught up in our busy lives , I capture them on my phone and sketchbooks on site, I like the idea they are part memory and part real. I have an intuitive approach to painting preferring to explore the colours of dreams rather than reality” They become part real and part of my dreamscape. They allow me to free myself from the reality of the everyday”
Highlight Exhibitions
Yellow Edge Gallery Natural Perception August 2019
Sussex Art Fair May 2019
Ascroft Arts Centre Fareham My Reflection 2018 January– 10 February2017
Reappearance: 2D3D South - Art Exhibition Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum and Gardens Jan -Feb 2018
Mottesfont Open, National Trust 1 Oct/13 Nov 2016
Art in the Ark – Spectrum Exhibition Basingstoke 8th April – 8th July 2016
Artscope Gallery Reading 100 works of Art 2016-2017
Visions Exhibition Red house Museum Chichester May - June 2016
Making Our Mark Exhibition Hilliers Arboretum Hampshire , 1 Jan 2016 -7th Feb 2016
Flux Exhibition RCA London 11 December 2015 to 14 December 2015
Flux Exhibition London 18-22nd Feb 2015
New Artist Fair London 27-29 March 2015 Candid Arts Galleries, EC1V 1NQ
Arful London selected Artist 2014-2015 Various exhibitions
Fusion Camden Image Gallery London 3rd-14th October 2014
New Artist Fair London Sept 5-7th 2014
Continuum Link Gallery Winchester July 2014
Waiting in the Wings of War exhibition Winchester 2014 2D3D South
Highcliffe Castle 2D3D South Feb 2014 to March 2014
Insight Exhibition at Red house museum Chichester Saturday 01 Feb 2014 to Saturday 01 Mar 2014
2013 Spectrum 2D3D Contemporary Art South at John Stripe Theatre King Alfred Campus
University of Winchester August 3, 2013 to August 26 2013
Untitled art fair Chelsea London 2012 Playing Games Eastleigh collaboration Sue Machlachlan
Re;Space Materials of our childhood, Link Gallery, Winchester 2011
I-SHO Women’s work is Never Done K Reed/Eames and S Maclachlan 2011
The Gallery, Edwards Lane London. 2011
Re:space, New Greenham Arts 2010, Newbury Berkshire 2011
1000 Plateaus, Havant Arts Centre, Havant, Hampshire 2009 MOBILE,
Norwich arts centre, Norwich 2008
Artsway Multichannel, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire 2008 FILMOBILE 2008,
London Gallery West, London M.A. Degree Show, Winchester School of Art (Southampton University) 2007
Integrity Vs Despair (video installation), Twonotten New Digital arts festival, 2006
Education
2005 B.A. (Hons) Visual Art First Class, Winchester School of Art (Southampton University),
2007 MA Fine Art (By Project), Southampton University -Winchester School of Art
Yellow Edge Gallery Natural Perception August 2019
Sussex Art Fair May 2019
Ascroft Arts Centre Fareham My Reflection 2018 January– 10 February2017
Reappearance: 2D3D South - Art Exhibition Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum and Gardens Jan -Feb 2018
Mottesfont Open, National Trust 1 Oct/13 Nov 2016
Art in the Ark – Spectrum Exhibition Basingstoke 8th April – 8th July 2016
Artscope Gallery Reading 100 works of Art 2016-2017
Visions Exhibition Red house Museum Chichester May - June 2016
Making Our Mark Exhibition Hilliers Arboretum Hampshire , 1 Jan 2016 -7th Feb 2016
Flux Exhibition RCA London 11 December 2015 to 14 December 2015
Flux Exhibition London 18-22nd Feb 2015
New Artist Fair London 27-29 March 2015 Candid Arts Galleries, EC1V 1NQ
Arful London selected Artist 2014-2015 Various exhibitions
Fusion Camden Image Gallery London 3rd-14th October 2014
New Artist Fair London Sept 5-7th 2014
Continuum Link Gallery Winchester July 2014
Waiting in the Wings of War exhibition Winchester 2014 2D3D South
Highcliffe Castle 2D3D South Feb 2014 to March 2014
Insight Exhibition at Red house museum Chichester Saturday 01 Feb 2014 to Saturday 01 Mar 2014
2013 Spectrum 2D3D Contemporary Art South at John Stripe Theatre King Alfred Campus
University of Winchester August 3, 2013 to August 26 2013
Untitled art fair Chelsea London 2012 Playing Games Eastleigh collaboration Sue Machlachlan
Re;Space Materials of our childhood, Link Gallery, Winchester 2011
I-SHO Women’s work is Never Done K Reed/Eames and S Maclachlan 2011
The Gallery, Edwards Lane London. 2011
Re:space, New Greenham Arts 2010, Newbury Berkshire 2011
1000 Plateaus, Havant Arts Centre, Havant, Hampshire 2009 MOBILE,
Norwich arts centre, Norwich 2008
Artsway Multichannel, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire 2008 FILMOBILE 2008,
London Gallery West, London M.A. Degree Show, Winchester School of Art (Southampton University) 2007
Integrity Vs Despair (video installation), Twonotten New Digital arts festival, 2006
Education
2005 B.A. (Hons) Visual Art First Class, Winchester School of Art (Southampton University),
2007 MA Fine Art (By Project), Southampton University -Winchester School of Art
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