Karen Preston
Location
Cowes, Australia
Preferred artistic medium
Collage, Contemporary, Drawing, Installation Art, Multi Media Art, Painting, Sculpture
Art level career
Emerging
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Artist statement
My goal as an artist is to express the joy I feel from making art, while offering alternative ways of seeing and being with the world around us. I think of my paintings as visual spaces to escape into; where abstraction and representation interplay to challenge how reality is seen and experienced. My recent work draws inspiration from the coastlines of south Gippsland, Victoria, where I live. The coastal environment - that littoral, fertile space of exchange where the sea and the land merge and separate is where I feel my strongest sense of belonging and where my creativity is nurtured.