Analysis of the recent drawing, Clusters I The bubbles that resemble pustules with hair are from the residual suds from hand wash. They work well with the imagery of the insect legs coming out of the plughole in the drawing. […]
I have history with drawing What exactly is going on when I decide to make a drawing I wonder, what is so complex about this apparently simple decision to make my mark? Drawing has waxed and waned as a significant […]
There are two sides to my work, practice and reflection. Here at the Ness of Brodgar there is much to draw, paint, and many sounds to record. But I also feel a need to keep a handle on the thinking […]
New Contemporaries has announced this year’s selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021.
BA (Hons) Fine Art graduating artist at Coventry University BISECT discusses her work.
How Gober’s work affects how I see my work I thought about how a lack of human presence of the chairs in the reflection relate to the prints and my work in general. They don’t have people in them, even […]
Orkney Artist Bursary Research Trip
This Blog is about undertaking a large private commission within it’s deadline, with an incurable illness, during the Covid Pandemic.
One of my drawings has made it through to the second stage of the selection process for the 2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. ‘Displaced Portrait No16 (woman from Brünn/Brno, 1942)’ is one of an ongoing series of silverpoint drawings based on […]
Previously I have said that human activity is my primary focus. But that is not the whole story. To clarify, it is the place in which people, including myself, are located that is the anchor for my work. That to […]
Analysis of using mirrors There’s an external reflection that’s public and everyone can see as a form of public identity, but there’s also an internal reflection that’s personal and happens when one is by themselves. Mirrors in the work makes […]
Hello all, I have just been awarded Arts Council England funding for my project ‘Invisible Army’. They have requested our policies and procedures. We are two independent, self employed artist running this project. I cannot find any clear information about […]
The first part of the day was spent putting up pictures to advertise the Artists in Residence, in the hope of sales – directing people to my website at karenwallis.co.uk. This was followed by a trip into Kirlkwall in search […]
