KAREN MAXTED

MEET THE ARTIST

My work manifests itself in ‘expanded collage’ including painting on linen as well as collections of individual metal or wooden shapes. Process is important to my finished pieces; manifested in this interest in transparency and layering.

There is a suggestion of an incomprehensible narrative, mis en scene and other worldliness. Fictitious shapes and animals appear somehow familiar, and I enjoy using anthropomorphic transformation. I play with the human desire to find recognisable forms in a painting.