Still

This exhibition at The Yew Tree Gallery illustrates Karen's ongoing fascination with the Cornish landscape and coastline. As with her first successful show, Where the land meets the sea, Karen's work remains primarily abstract but for all that the viewer's own emotional response is integral, key influences can be discerned in her painting. Her work is visibly of Cornwall and its coastline - the sea, granite rocks and boulders, harbour walls and Celtic crosses of the county in which Karen was raised. At the same time as exuding an extraordinary seneity and harmony, Karen's work explores the distance and/or connections between things - the space where the land meets the sea, the edge of things, the subtle gap between stone and shore. As such, it is visibly 'Cornish' - and a remarkable demonstration of resilience, inner strength and serenity. Hence, Still. Karen's work is of the still points in life, in art, in the landscape, the sea and Cornwall.

Below is a selection of work from Still.