Lilac Sky

This is a large work, patiently produced by the artist over 3 weeks.

The works in this series are inspired by the artists passion for textiles, the marks represent elements and aspects of every day items. The trigger can be something simple like a fabric, or aspects of a flower such as a banksia, even something as old fashioned as knitting, each mark is painstakingly added to a backdrop of paint layers, taking the work in a completely different direction to it's
original format. This achieves a texture and movement over the background that is as mesmerising as the process is itself.

The abstract composition takes on a landscape of it's own. This work references sky and is full of Lilacs, pinks, and blues, a nod to the season and the jacarandas in bloom. It is far better in reality than in a photo.

This is an emotive work, that evolved during the Covid crisis after many experiments, the quantity of mark making references the impact of every outcome on so many people, and the impact on day to day aspects of life. It is a recognition of how many people have been affected in so many ways.

The technique is very therapeutic, there is order and confusion within the layers of paint and mark making which most can relate to in the state the world is in.

Much is left here for the viewer to interpret the aim is that each and every one feels something relatable in this abstract work.

This body of work moves away from the still life compositions featuring native flowers, and explores the freedom to create using mark making techniques in an effort to create abstract compositions that will resonate with an audience, which takes the artist back to her original art school where these techniques were explored.

The sides are white, but the artist is open to finishing the sides with a specific color should the collector prefer. Alternatively Blue thumb can arrange framing for the collector.

The cost of the work includes the cost of custom packaging to ensure it arrives safely with the collector. Packaging this large work takes a few days or so to ensure it's safe to travel, please be patient.

Thanks for looking.

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Having resided in South Africa and Australia, Karen Goddard’s abstracts and floral artworks are deeply influenced by the botanicals and environmental facets familiar to both. Her still life depictions encapsulate the innate shapes and exuberance of her organic subjects, while her mark making abstractions embody their unique and specific colourations. Previously living through times of national turmoil and transformation, her works persistently focus on the beauty of her natural surroundings, and deliver an emotive and meditative quality that arouses captivation and peace.

Favouring an impressionistic creative approach, Karen alternates between oils and acrylics in order to produce diverse compositional elements, imagery and texturizations. She typically begins by depositing a ground colour onto the canvas, which habitually determines the ethos of the work. Layering the complimentary colours in stages, which are individually mixed through a meticulously process, each of the darker shades are typically set down first, while lighter colours are introduced later. A pattern of short and repetitive brushstrokes are utilised in the creation of her abstracts, which produces an overlay over the existing colour work, and instigates the qualities of movement and flow.

Extremely diverse in her work, Karen is an Australian Artist Located in Queensland. Karen has called the Gold Coast home for over 16 years where she paints full time. Educated originally in the UK, her travels sent her to South Africa in her teens, where she worked for an Investment Company in Cape Town for many years. It was later when Karen had young children that she decided to study Art, and learned sound skills in all mediums, giving her a strong foundation in drawing, collage, print making and painting with Oils and Acrylics and water colours. Inspired by Impressionist period, she is fearless in her use of colour; a diverse Artist, working across the spectrum of compositions, from Abstract to Portraiture, Landscape and Still Life. Constantly challenging herself to produce a varying body of work. Some of these are now available on Blue thumb. Enjoy the gallery and thank you for looking.