karen sole artist napier aotearoa-new zealand
  • Contact+history
  • 2022 +
  • 2021 +
  • 2020 +
    • Clearview Estate Exhibition
  • 2019 New work
  • 3D
  • On paper to Dec 2019
  • Prints & Cards
  • ihlara@edges 2019
  • Hot Planet
  • Land Village Fences@Kina 2019
  • 2018 exhibitions
  • Botanical
  • 2014 - 2018
  • 2014-16 Exhibitions
  • Morocco
    • Morocco Dreaming I
    • Morocco Dreaming II
    • Morocco Dreaming III
    • Morocco Dreaming IV: Khenifra Rainy day
    • Morocco Dreaming V
  • Whenua-Moana
  • Specifically Shoreline
  • Totems
    • Totem II and Totem III
  • Blue and Green
  • Sky
  • Urban Lights
  • Photographs
  • 2023 +
all rights reserved - by the artist - on all works, images and parts thereof 

All finished works for sale unless otherwise noted
Here you see works on canvas. See also new Works on paper and 3D
Bringing Things In 
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76cm
The title in the fifth of the series evoked by memories of my mother refers to any or all of these: kindling for the coal stove, coal, vegetables, eggs, or obviously, the washing.
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Go Outside And Play 
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
​In this, five kids in a small house and our mother's need to preserve some shreds of sanity. We had plenty of space outside, trees, lawn, wild paddocks over the fence, an old orchard full of lichen covered apple and pear trees, chooks, swamps and creeks. And Westerns, known to us as cowboys and Indians fuelling hours of shooting, wounding or killing with clothes peg guns. It wasn't difficult to play outside. (Political analysis of the movies came later. Boom)
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Always Plant In The Rain
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
Living under Mt. Taranaki there was always plenty of rain. In the spring my mother would cover herself with something resembling a raincoat, and go out in the drizzle to plant a couple of dozen snap dragons or runanculae and anemone.
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Bathroom with Lipstick 
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
I have a clear memory, or an accumulation of memories of standing in the doorway watching my mother apply lipstick at the mirror, which I feel now as a kind of enchantment.
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Ways To Say Goodbye, (below), and Bathroom With Lipstick, Always Plant In The Rain, 
Go Outside And Play and Bringing Things In (all above)
​were all evoked by memories of my mother.
Ways To say Goodbye
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
On the left, as I left it in 2019, on the right, the re-work. See a larger image @ 
2022 +
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Wave
Mixed media on canvas
60 x 30 cm
SOLD
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The House series shot from outside Tennyson Gallery 16 July 2019
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Melt IV
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 50 cm
Currently committed to Tremain's Affordable Art Exhibition March 2020
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[Melt has SOLD, Melt ll and Melt lll are available Hot Planet]
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Revenge Of The Tall Poppies
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
SOLD
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Beach House
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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Blue House
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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Red House
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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White House
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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Yellow House
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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Dusk At The Splashpad 
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
Available at Tennyson Gallery 
SOLD

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Parihaka
Mixed media on canvas panel
​63 x 97 framed w/o glass
[Not new work - in fact this is the first Parihaka work from 2015, but newly framed].
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Hawkes Bay Art Review, Creative Arts Napier until 27 June. 
My three entries
Aotearoa Waits, It Rains Here, (this page). and Threats (Parihaka) SOLD Land Village Fences@Kina 2019


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Ljiljana's Steps
Acrylic on gessoed roller blind 
63 x 136 cm 
SOLD
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Silo

Mixed media on canvas
60 x 50 cm
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​The House Is On Fire
​Acrylic on board
​40 x 50 cm
​Hot Planet

After We're Gone
​Acrylic on unstretched canvas
​83 x 41 cm
​Hot Planet
SOLD
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Revert To Original
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 50
​Hot Planet
Currently committed to Tremain's Affordable Art Exhibition March 2020
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​Two Minutes To Midnight​
​Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 cm
​Hot Planet


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Regeneration
Acrylic on board
40 x 50 cm x three pieces
​Hot Planet
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It Rains Here
Acrylic on canvas
​76 x 76 cm
This work was selected by Bill Milbank for the Hawkes Bay Art Review at Creative Arts Napier 2019, along with 'Aotearoa Waits', (this page) and 'Threats' Land Village Fences@Kina 2019

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Life and Longing 
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Mirage
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 17 cm

Habitat
Acrylic on canvas
13 x 34 cm
Lagoon
Acrylic on canvas 
​20 x 16 cm
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The Lorax Said
Acrylic on canvas
​13 x 10 cm
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Wai [Water + Life]
Acrylic on canvas
22 x 10 cm​
SOLD
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Free Money Acrylic on canvas 18 x 19 cm
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                          The Sun Will Keep On Shining 
Acrylic on canvas 15 x 17 cm
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Wave
Acrylic on canvas
​19 x 17 cm

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At The Window
Acrylic on canvas
​14 x 16 cm





​Open Door
Acrylic on canvas
​28 x 14 cm

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Lake Acrylic on canvas 16 x 19 cm
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Assembly Acrylic on canvas 18 x 9 cm SOLD top right        
Return Acrylic on canvas 18 x 8 cm lower right
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​This Life Acrylic on canvas 15 x 13 cm

Rain's Going To Rain Acrylic on canvas
​19 x 18 cm right
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Tell Me Now
Acrylic on canvas
13 x 11 cm

​Aotearoa Waits
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
This work was selected by Bill Milbank for the Hawkes Bay Art Review at Creative Arts Napier 2019​,
​along with 'It Rains Here' (this page) and 'Threats', Land Village Fences@Kina 2019
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Caught up in songs, films and history. 
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Take Me With You When You Go
​Acrylic on canvas
25 x 25 cm
 
​SOLD
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They Left Nothing Behind
Acrylic on canvas /collage
20 x 41 cm
SOLD

Your Brand New
Snakeskin Pill Box Hat

​Mixed media canvas/ collage
15 x 20 cm
SOLD



When Quinn The Eskimo
Gets Here

Acrylic on canvas/ collage 
​10 x 30 cm
SOLD 

I want to add context here, to avoid any misunderstandings. This is a comment on a  movie from 1968, entitled The Savage Innocents - say no more. Anthony Quinn starred in it: Bob Dylan wrote the song later.  
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Tell It Like It Is
Acrylic on canvas/collage
10 x 30 cm
SOLD
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The Mountain Doesn't Come To You
Acrylic on canvas/collage
​20 x 26 cm
SOLD
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They Sold Paradise, Put Up A Parking Lot
Acrylic on canvas/collage
25 x 25 cm
SOLD


One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
Acrylic on canvas/collage
15 x 30 cm
SOLD

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You Could Have Told Me Yourself
Acrylic on canvas/collage

25 x 25 cm
SOLD

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​They Say That There's A Secret Chord
Acrylic on canvas/collage
15 x 30 cm
SOLD
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  • Contact+history
  • 2022 +
  • 2021 +
  • 2020 +
    • Clearview Estate Exhibition
  • 2019 New work
  • 3D
  • On paper to Dec 2019
  • Prints & Cards
  • ihlara@edges 2019
  • Hot Planet
  • Land Village Fences@Kina 2019
  • 2018 exhibitions
  • Botanical
  • 2014 - 2018
  • 2014-16 Exhibitions
  • Morocco
    • Morocco Dreaming I
    • Morocco Dreaming II
    • Morocco Dreaming III
    • Morocco Dreaming IV: Khenifra Rainy day
    • Morocco Dreaming V
  • Whenua-Moana
  • Specifically Shoreline
  • Totems
    • Totem II and Totem III
  • Blue and Green
  • Sky
  • Urban Lights
  • Photographs
  • 2023 +