About

'History is carefully recycled into new biographies in the work of Karen Christensen who creates parallel universes full of discovery and magic, love and pain, humour and hope.

 

Each artwork is a personal reflection of experiences, filled with clues to a thousand potential stories for each individual viewer to piece together. Her changeable yet distinct style flows through her body of work, which includes paintings, sculptures, boxed artworks and and mixed media compositions. In a collision of colour, pattern, text and texture, the artist's assemblages are true visual feasts where anything is possible.

 

Working with an encyclopaedic range of materials and found items which may otherwise have been discarded or overlooked such as vintage postcards, rusted nails, pieces of twisted drift wood and obscure fragments of of metal machinery, their original function is long forgotten on their journey into this final form.

 

Based in Essex, Christensen's work is exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is held in private collections'

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Inside Artists, Issue 18 autumn/winter 2020