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Karen King originally trained as a Scientific Illustrator at Middlesex University in the 1990’s, gaining a 1st Class BA(Hons) degree. Following her graduation she worked as a freelance illustrator for world famous publishers such as Penguin, HarperCollins and Dorling Kindersley and later as a graphic designer for the Fire Service.
Since 2010, Karen has lived in the beautiful coastal town of Broadstairs, Kent, where she has opened the incredibly successful New Kent Art Gallery & Studio. Here, she exhibits her own work alongside a collective of fellow Kent artists and makers and has developed an extraordinary reputation in her field.
Recently she was shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Marine Artists and has been a Wild Card artist twice for the Sky Arts Artist of the Year Competition.
One of her aims is to bring art to all and use art to help local charities such as the Town Team, often auctioning work for Children in Need, NHS, and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Karen is also one of the artists selected to design and paint a beautiful Elmer sculpture that featured on the streets of Maidstone in June 2021 as part of Elmer’s Big Heart of Kent Parade, raising money for Heart of Kent Hospice. Her design featured inspirational quotes on equality and diversity and was auctioned for over £11,000 for charity.
Heavily influenced by nature, Karen works in gouache, oils, acrylic, resin and watercolour and loves experimenting with texture and colour, producing work ‘en plein air’ and in the studio. In recent years she has exhibited widely across the UK, and her work is collected around the world.
Solo and Group Exhibitions
York Street Gallery, Ramsgate Solo 2016
East Kent Open Houses Solo 2016
Ash Church, Ash 2017
Nice Things, Ramsgate 2017
Sky Arts Landscape, Wild Card 2017
Pie Factory, Margate 2018
Sky Arts Landscape, Wild Card 2018
McGillan & Woodall, Ramsgate Solo 2019
York Street Gallery, Ramsgate Group Collective 2021
Bluewater Shopping Centre, Over the Rainbow collective Nov 2021
Pie Factory, Margate Collective 2021
Sky Arts Landscape, Wild Card 2021
EKAS, Sandwich 2021
Elmer Parade, Maidstone 2021
The Horsebridge Centre, Collective Whitstable 2022
EKAS, Sandwich 2021
East Kent Open Houses, Broadstairs 2022
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