Manchester Local Artists (46)
Around the Greater Metropolitan County

"Butterfly Tree"

"Haunted"

"Listening"

"Moment of Sadness"

"Refuse to Bow Down
- Primal Scream"

"Seduction"

"The Hug"

Karen Jones

The Artist

Karen Jones lives in the attic of a Victorian house in the North of England. Initially her main creative outlet was writing, but "...after studying Chaos and fractals" (as she puts it) she found a new medium to enable her to express with more strength her philosophy and ideas on life.

Although she studied media studies recently, she is essentially self taught. After working with fractal images for six years, Karen held major exhibitions recently at the Printworks and Tiger Tiger in Manchester.

All of her work is created using a fractal-generating programme on the computer.

Each of her images is, in essence, a mathematical formula, but this can be simplified as shown with Chaos and the so-called 'butterfly's wings' theory. Karen says:

"As each artist does with their own particular medium, I have found an affinity with working in fractals that suits my style and a driven need to express myself. Many people who work with fractals say how they feel a 'flow', which almost correlates to a connection with 'universal consciousness' .

I feel that my own work exhibits a strength in the use of the medium and the ability to express emotions that emulate the human condition. All the images I create are imbued with a strong sense of mystery and enigmatic complexities".

Karen also often writes poetry and prose to accompany her work and performs these publicly when requested at arts and poetry festivals. Her work differs from most others in the fractal field in that she has been able to interpret emotion and abstract expression to a degree that few have yet attained.

She describes her themes as ranging from oppression and the strength of human spirit under dire circumstances - ('Refuse to Bow Down - Primal Scream'); to tender explorations of nature ('Listening'); as well as the sensual, ('Seduction'); the emotional, ('The Hug') and ('Butterfly Tree'); and existential aspects of humanity, ('Haunted') and ('Moments of Sadness').

Creating each of these images takes a concentrated effort over anything from 5 to 24 hours and sometimes longer. She only considers the process completed when a print is made either onto canvas or paper.

Karen's artwork is produced in a strictly limited form and she sells internationally.

She has recently been accepted to exhibit her work in New York and Spain as well as at various British venues.

Most of her work is available to see online on her own website at: www.kazzy.co.uk

Karen can be contacted via email at:

kazzy_jones@tiscali.co.uk

If you are, or know of any local artists (painters, photographers, potters, sculptors, etc) located or based in and around Manchester please let us know, and if appropriate, we'll try to include them. Contact us directly by email.

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