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Mock up of Karen Bleakley's Artwork 'Ember Fields' hung in a contemporary home

Soft horizons and quiet colour

Rooted in feeling, I paint the quiet, often overlooked emotional spaces we move through, moments of stillness, distance, memory, softness, and reflection. ​

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Drawn to muted palettes, atmospheric layers and horizons, I’m interested in how colour and texture can hold emotion in the same way music or light can. 

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Each piece begins intuitively, allowing mood to guide the process rather than strictly representation, resulting in paintings that feel both familiar and out of reach - like remembered spaces, passing with weather or sunlight.

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At the heart of my practice is a desire to create work that brings, calm, depth and presence into a room. Whether abstract or representational, my paintings are designed to be lived with slowly, revealing difference qualities as light changes and time passes. 

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My work invites you to pause in a world that rarely stops moving. ​​​

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