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Soft horizons and quiet colour

My work is rooted in feeling. I paint the quiet, often overlooked emoational spaces we move through, moments of stillness, distance, memory, softness and reflection. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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

© 2023 by Karen Bleakley Art. All rights reserved.

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