Oceans call as flowers fall - Limited edition print Ed. 2 of 50

This is 1 of 50 Limited edition prints, this one is printed on a stretched canvas ready to hang, and this is only available on Blue thumb. The sides are white, and if you choose to add your own frame the sides will be covered by the frame.

Please allow an extra week or so for dispatch.

The story behind the original:

An abstract work from my series of ocean paintings with floating flowers. This was a series of work from sometime back, they were all sold. I do obsess over blue, and living next to the ocean, plus of course my love of flowers, meant that a re visit to this was inevitable.

Artist statement. "Just like resolving issues in everyday life, the process of painting for me can be likened to this, it is much the same, and is full of complexities. One takes steps to resolve an issue just as I take steps resolve and create art, adding layers of paint over time, allowing the composition to emerge from the canvas until ultimately it is resolved. It's thus so much more than just a creative process, with a convenient outcome.

I am influenced by my surroundings, especially in nature and our beautiful landscapes on the Gold Coast. Situations, personal circumstances and events have a big impact on my work and the process, to the extent that I am fully invested emotionally and connected with the final outcome.

I love working with colour, it evokes an emotional response, for me there is a strength and passion attached to applying colour to a canvas I have always been fearless with colour which for me represents resilience, the colours can be both primary or subtle the impact and response is the same.

Thank you for looking and I hope that you also make an emotional connection with my work.

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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.