Absence of limitations

Absence of limitations, explores the freedom to create using techniques available to the artist, layering of oil paint over many months gave a solid ground on which to explore mark making techniques, defined by the size and shape of the brush. The artist usually utilises short square brushes to create blocks of colour and contrast when including mark making in her work, covering only parts of the canvas. Where as, this work features a multitude of repetitive marks consuming the entire canvas. The appearance of the marks are influenced by the multi tonal back ground.

The marks are abstract and numerous most are similar and have a sense of conformity.
The emotive connection to the concept of freedom is laid bare across this canvas, in the current landscape across Australia with frequent lockdowns, this work is indeed the antithesis of these restrictions, with the marks being numerous and many closely connected. It seems that only in art is this freedom of expression possible right now.

The sides are painted blue, the work can be left un framed it is ready to hang, 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 are this large takes a few days, please be patient.

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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.