Karen Camkin (b.1967)

Karen Camkin (b.1967)
Mrs B's Tulips
Signed (lower left)
Oil on gesso
100 x 100cm

Karen Camkin received her MA Fine Art (Distinction) in 2012 from the University of Gloucestershire and her BA in painting from Exeter Art College in 1991. She is currently studying for a MA in Print at the Royal College of Art. She has been selected multiple times for the Lynn Painter Stainers, the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, The Royal West of England and Discerning Eye. Since 2019 she has regularly shown with Eastwood Fine Art and runs classes and workshops from her studio in Gloucestershire. Her still life paintings are inspired by seasonal flowers and the featured pottery in many paintings is also made by Camkin. The works are full of colour, painted in layers of oil that are sometimes scraped and sanded to reveal previous marks. Her mark making is lively and fresh to capture the movement and fragility within nature.