Proteas in Teal light - Framed

This artwork comes with an external floating frame in Tasmanian Oak

The artist has a connection to both South Africa and Australia, The Banksia & Protea are native to both countries. The structure of the flower is so perfect, flowers feature in so much of the artists work. Proteas symbolize diversity and courage.

This is one of the artists most recent adventures with flowers and features the beautiful red Protea which connects her to past, present, and future.

A joining together of these two southern hemisphere countries through the familiar fauna and flora.

The colours are vibrant with a light Teal/blue background.

This colour palette will feature later in the artists mark making works where she takes a brush stroke in a similar shape of the flower and creates a veneer of these shapes over a layered background.

Each still life or landscape leads to a series of mark making works. Fell free to view these works in her portfolio, they are indeed the antithesis of the floral still life works.

The artists moto is to "defy what is expected of you"

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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.