Karen Sherwood is presenting her latest body of work under the title ‘Escape to the sea’. Ms Sherwood describes her work as expressive landscape paintings.
“My paintings evolve through the process of painting. They all start as completely abstract marks and colours and slowly decide what they want to be. The mood and content of the images seem to reflect how I am feeling about the world resulting in often quite turbulent or moody images, unsurprising in our rather unsettling times. I am fascinated by the fact that, despite my love of the Yorkshire moors and the landlocked nature of this city in which I live, Sheffield, I am constantly drawn into depicting images of the sea. Over the last few years these landscapes very often take on the appearance of real places although I have no idea what places they might be. I am often asked ‘where is that?’ about my paintings but I can honestly answer ‘I don’t know.’. I like the fact that people will tell me my paintings look like this or that place as I really enjoy the way that connects the painting to the viewer. I use colour to evoke mood and recently I have been using a lot of blue, to the point where one of my customers remarked “It’s Karen Sherwood blue!”
I was inspired to start painting again after a hiatus of around 12 years after my children were born, by the kind offer of a stay in Seahouses on the north east Yorkshire coast. Although none of my images are now directly related to that area, I continue to be inspired by that wonderful stretch of coastline.” Karen Sherwood
All works are painted in oil and are for sale. They vary hugely in size from tiny miniature works, on paper, measuring only 5x7cm up to a large 150 x 80 cm oil on linen.