Karen Martin

I call myself an experimentalist and enjoy working on new ideas and materials. Having previously worked as a midwife, It’s good to get out into the landscape and both sketch and take photos of what inspires me. Taking these back to the studio and working in layers of paint and collage mainly on wood, but could also be on cartridge paper or printing surfaces and put through the press.
I enjoy workshops where I can learn new ideas and regularly exhibit my work both locally and in galleries and was accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2019. Have also exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute, and various other London venues. My work has sold both locally as well as further afield including Honduras.
At present, I have a selection of my work in the entrance hall of Stoke Mandeville Hospital and am also in The Good Earth Gallery, Chesham, where I will be exhibiting for Bucks Art Weeks 2024.