Karen Wise is a Cheshire based contemporary artist whose creative journey began in the world of fashion design. After training and working in the fashion industry, she shifted her focus to fine art, bringing with her a strong sense of composition, colour, and form.
A full-time painter with more than thirty years of experience, Karen's work is best known for its rich textures, layered meaning, and imaginative themes. She draws on a wide array of influences-mythology, the natural world, human emotion, historical motifs-and interprets them through a personal lens that is often tinged with surrealism. Her paintings feature recurring figures such as birds, female forms, and dreamlike landscapes, all rendered with a distinctive mix of watercolour, ink, gouache, pastels, and pencil. Her ability to work across media gives her compositions a sense of movement and psychological depth.
Karen's beautiful and striking original artworks are created on acid free paper, and are also available framed and mounted under glass.
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