Karen Thomas | 2020 Landscape Series: A Path Forward

May 4

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Karen Thomas
2020 Landscape Series:
A Path Forward

Focus Gallery, June 4 - 26, 2021

I currently love a playful approach to my work. When I paint, the painting becomes a multi layered story, visually depicting a current landscape I have been absorbing through spending hours and days walking or cross-country skiing through (with a camera for documentation), while also depicting somehow in the energy, light, or composition, a reference to current events that was/were affecting me during the period of painting. This second layer is not planned and is usually apparent in hindsight only. The cohesion lies in the focused, intuitive and self-disciplined approach in my practice, which allows for an unfolding of spontaneous expressions and styles in my art.

2020 Landscape Series: A Path Forward

Acclimating to the energy of 2020, I went in to my studio with an xacto knife and took stock of my stacks of paintings. I cut, I pasted, I threw out, and I created new. I cleared out what no longer served me and set the foundation for an inspired, uncluttered, approach for a path forward. The calm regeneration of season in a Yukon landscape is offered as a sweet solace in these pieces, but with the materialization emerging of 2020’s panic, curiosity, global upheaval, advocacy, black lives matter explosion and movement, cooperation, isolation, chaos, and contemplation.

KAREN THOMAS
Karen Thomas is from Dawson City, Yukon. Having a passion for drawing and creating since she was a child, she returned to school in 2013 to focus on painting. After completing the Foundation Fine Arts program in Dawson City, she continued on the complete her Bachelor of Fine Arts at NSCAD in Nova Scotia in 2018.

Having worked with drawing, multimedia (collage) and printmaking (serigraphy and intaglio), she is currently focusing on painting with both acrylics and oils. She experiments with different paints and styles to create bold, balanced, and whimsical figurative and landscaped compositions that resist falling in line with any certain coherence, and keep you guessing as to where she will go next.

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