KAREN BEAUCHAMP
Karen originally trained and worked as an architect, but did a sideways move into wallpaper design and printing using hand block and screenprinting.
She is now working as an experimental printmaker on the Atlantic coast of Scotland, her fascinations are the shapes, patterns and structures of the ancient rocks, where the land meets the sea.
Her work is elemental, abstract, reacting to the formation, layering and the energy driven cracks in the rocks, plus their relationship to tree structures and other shoreline details like wind and water patterns in the sand.
Working mainly now with monotype in a square format, using recycled materials cut into shapes to make small limited editions of about 10 pieces, and one off 3D collages re-using the already recycled printing plates .
Colour and pigments have also been an enduring passion since childhood and she is completely fascinated by the daily changing colours of the seasons.
Exhibitions and Awards
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2025 - The Jetty Gallery - Oban
2025 - Archway Gallery - Lochgilphead
2024 - The Stable Gallery - Inveraray
2023 - Group Show - Resipole Gallery & Artmap Open Studios
2022 - Artmap Open Studios & Loch Melfort Hotel
2021 - Artmap Open Studios & Loch Melfort Hotel
2021 – Shortlisted for Viking Cruises British Art Prize
With Flaming Forest – Autumn Colours.
2020 - Solo Show - Lucy’s Ardfern​
2019 - Artmap Open Studios & The Archway Gallery
2018 - Artmap Open Studios & Lillie Art Gallery
2017 - Artmap Open Studios & Gigha Gallery
2016 - Artmap Argyll Open Studios & Glasgow Society of Women Artists - Group Show - Smith Gallery, Stirling
2015 - Artmap Argyll Open Studios & Glasgow Society of Women Artists & Lillie Gallery, Glasgow
2015 – Shortlisted for Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year With The Colours of West Kintyre.
2014 - Artmap Argyll Open Studios & Glasgow Society of Women Artists – Lillie Gallery, Glasgow