Karen Hickey
Karen Hickey
Karen Hickey is based in Celbridge, Co. Kildare.
Since 2005 she has attended many workshops and courses mainly in portraiture, attending at NCAD studying Life Drawing and Painting in 2016/17. She has been working professionally since 2016. Interested in people, their histories and back-stories, she endeavours to capture the essence of her subjects through the bold use of colour, shapes and lines.
Her visual style Is expressive and instinctive. Karen’s work featured at the Electric Picnic Festival in 2017 and at the Waterford Walls Festival in 2018 and she hosted a solo exhibition at the Signal Arts Centre in Bray that year.
She has displayed work at Art Source in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. In 2022 Karen was accepted to exhibit her art at K-Fest in Kilorglan and had a second solo exhibition at Signal Arts Centre in Bray in February. Karen featured her work again at Art Source 2023 and was invited by the Kildare artist group SULT to join them as a member in March 2023.
Statement: I have always been fascinated with faces, colours, lines and abstraction. I use many different materials but especially love oil pastels for their vibrancy and textures. I find character in faces and in the movement of subjects very interesting and like when they are a bit strange or quirky. I enjoy the imperfection and the boldness that comes with strong lines and pattern.
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