The Gallery: Exhibitions

APRIL
FRESH HORIZONS
by KAREN MALMGREN
Feel welcome to join the artist and guests for the upcoming solo exhibition at Cstudios Art Gallery
OFFICIAL OPENING
SATURDAY 18th APRIL
4pm – 7pm
518 Hunter St
Newcastle NSW

Artist Statement
Fresh Horizons is about ebbs and flows. The exploration of rhythm, the visible and invisible movements that shape both seascape and life.
Taking its cue from the perpetual motion of the tide. This exhibition reflects on cycles of arrival and retreats, turbulence and stillness, presence and absence.
The gentle understanding that everything moves in cycles and that within each retreat lies the promise of return.
The ocean is never static, neither are we. Just as tides respond to unseen lunar forces, human emotion moves in cycles.

These paintings offer an invitation to pause within the sifting atmosphere of each canvas. Some works carry the hush of early morning tides, other suggest the changed intensity of gathering weather, currents colliding, wind carving the surface, colour changing. They ask to be experienced, to be stood before, quietly allowing the eyed to drift and settle like water finding its level.