karen sole artist napier aotearoa-new zealand
  • Contact+history+greeting cards
    • Greeting Cards
  • 2024-25
    • Whangamomona
  • 2023 +
  • 2022 +
  • 2021 +
  • 2020 +
    • Clearview Estate Exhibition
  • 2019 New work
  • 3D
  • On paper to Dec 2019
  • 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
all rights reserved - by the artist - on all works, images and parts thereof
Adorable Future
Acrylic on cotton damask
49 x 49 cm
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WIP
Untitled

Acrylic and Indian ink on wallpaper
133 x 52 cm
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Take Me To The River, and details. 102 x 76 cm Selected for the Hawkes Bay Art Review, opening 19 November - 09 December 2021
Available from the studio
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Overnight, Everything Changed
Acrylic and Indian ink on canvas 
150 x 100 cm
SOLD
going to a new home in Parma, Italy
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The Dream That Won't Let You Go
Acrylic and Indian ink on canvas
83 x 125 cm
​SOLD 
going to a new home in Parma, Italy
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O For Omicron
Acrylic and tissue paper collage on canvas
61 x 51 cm
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Pink Painting
Acrylic, oil pastel and tissue paper collage on canvas
61 x 31 cm
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Untitled [Botanical]
Acrylic and tissue paper collage on canvas
76 x 26 cm
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Drift
Acrylic and Indian ink on canvas
61 x 30 cm
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What If We're Wrong, And Money's Not the Main Thing
Acrylic, Indian ink and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
105 x 52 cm
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Exploring Space With Billionaires
Acrylic, oil pastel, and collage on wallpaper
105 x 52 cm
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Redemption Song
Acrylic and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
100 x 52 cm
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Itinerary, 2021
Acrylic, oil pastel, Indian ink and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
72 x 52 cm
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Untitled
Acrylic, oil pastel, Indian ink and tissue paper collage on wallpaper
52 x 52 cm
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Red Sky
Acrylic, oil pastel & Indian ink on wallpaper
130 x 52 cm
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Spring Feels
Acrylic and oil pastel on wallpaper
52 x 65 cm
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After Rain ll
Acrylic, oil pastel & Indian ink on wallpaper
52 x 55 cm
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Untitled
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(Temporary image)
Acrylic on wallpaper
110 x 51 cm
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War Is...Over?
31 August 2021
Acrylic and oil pastel
31 x 23 cm
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The Dreams Of Cortez
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
31 x 31 cm
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Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 20 cm
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Tell Me About The Sweat Lodge
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft card
30 x 21 cm
​Meditation on indigenous culture
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Even Snow Has Secrets
Acrylic and oil pastel on A3 tracing paper
​On hearing of mass graves of indigenous children in Canada.
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Untitled [Four pieces]
Acrylic and oil pastel & stick on cardboard
36 x 24 cm
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Untitled [Big Sky]
Acrylic, oil stick, and oil pastel on A3 tracing paper
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Untitled [World On Fire]
Acrylic and oil stick on A3 tracing paper
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Pontoon
Acrylic, oil pastel and oil stick on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Untitled [Looking At Lines]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Untitled [The Same Sun]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Taranaki Cloud Bank
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper 
28 x 28 cm
SOLD
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Threaded Clouds
Acrylic, oil and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Awakino Fog
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
SOLD
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Untitled [Something About China]
Acrylic, oil pastel, oil stick and blue plastic film on Kraft paper
27 x 27 cm
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Untitled [Big red cup of flowers]
Acrylic, oil pastel, oil stick on A3 tracing paper
SOLD
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Untitled [Flowers with cadmium yellow]
Acrylic and oil pastel on black paper
27 x 27 cm
SOLD
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Untitled [Vase]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
27 x 27 cm
SOLD
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Delta Hits The Scene
Acrylic and oil pastel on cotton fabric
56 x 46 cm
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D For Delta
Acrylic and oil pastel
28 x 28 cm
​The ongoing rich inspiration of the pandemic
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Untitled [With Copper]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Untitled [Garden]
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
26 x 28 cm
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Pattern With Gold
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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Pattern With Red
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
26 x 28 cm
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The Hook, Line, and Sinker Of It
Acrylic on canvas
​92 x 61 cm
Joyous rage when considering the power and reach of colonialism.
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The Beautiful Experience Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on black paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Monster's Going to Get Me Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on black paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Hansel and Gretel Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Shopping With Mother Dream
Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
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The Forgot My Lines Dream

Acrylic and oil pastel on Kraft paper
28 x 28 cm
SOLD 
​and living in Milan
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Float
Mixed media on cotton fabric
51 x 58 cm
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Te Maunga lV
Mixed media on cotton fabric
52 x 52 cm
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Te Maunga
Mixed media on cotton fabric
58 x 51 cm
SOLD
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Clearing
Mixed media on cotton fabric
49 x 51 cm
SOLD
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Sketch For Desire
Acrylic on black album paper
28 x 27 cm
SOLD
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Losing Your Religion
Mixed media on found handmade paper
34 x 34 cm
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Some Way Out Of Here
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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ANZAC Day painting #3
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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ANZAC Day painting #2
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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Every Year, The Poppies.
ANZAC Day painting #1
Mixed media on tracing paper
50 x 40 cm
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Ghosts Haunt Us. Ancestors Walk With Us.
Mixed media with collage on canvas
102 x 102 cm
In memory of my father, Thomas Edward Sole, 11 May 1929 - 22 March 2021
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All Roads
Mixed media on cotton fabric
55 x 53 cm
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Forest Clearing
Mixed media on cotton fabric
55 x 55 cm
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You Are My Sunshine
Mixed media on black paper
28 x 26 cm
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Untitled
Mixed media on black paper
27 x 26 cm
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Pink [Botanical]
Mixed media with collage on cotton fabric
55 x 48 cm
SOLD
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After Rain [Botanical]
Mixed media on cotton fabric
​52 x 50 cm
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Untitled [Graphic design, gold]
Mixed media on cotton fabric
55 x 55 cm
SOLD
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Untitled [Graphic design, copper]
Mixed media on cotton fabric
53 x 53 cm
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Untitled [Graphic design, green]
Mixed media on found handmade paper
32 x 32 cm
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Dream It's OK
​Mixed media on found handmade paper
31 x 33 cm
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Binary II 
Mixed media on cotton fabric
53 x 54 cm
​Remembering Alan Turing

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Binary 
Mixed media on cotton fabric
53 x 53 cm
​Remembering Alan Turing

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Ceremonies
Mixed media with collage on cotton fabric
52 x 52 cm
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Calibrating Joy
Mixed media on canvas
102 x 102 cm
As lockdowns eased
​and the world shook and stretched
we were all wondering when we would see
loved ones again
in the wake of the Covid pandemic
Donated for September 2024 auction by NZ Labour Party 
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Take Me To The River
Mixed media on canvas
​102 x 76 cm

Selected for exhibition at The Hawkes Bay Art Review September 2021
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QR Code: Never Mind The Static
Mixed media on tissue paper
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QR Code: All In
Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Just Sign In
Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Clear Messages
Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Yellow
​Mixed media on found handmade paper
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QR Code: Take Me To Your Leader
Mixed media on found handmade paper
34 x 34 cm
​Botanical
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New Year's Resolution 
Mixed media on black paper
27 x 29 cm

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Bio Box
Mixed media on A4 black paper
​Botanical
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Be Careful Where You Stand
Mixed media on A5 black paper
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​Compromise

Mixed media on A5 black paper
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​The House In Your Dream

Mixed media on A5 black paper
Nothing Left To Lose
Mixed media on A4 black paper
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Consequences 
Mixed media on found handmade paper
34 x 34 cm
temporary image
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  • Contact+history+greeting cards
    • Greeting Cards
  • 2024-25
    • Whangamomona
  • 2023 +
  • 2022 +
  • 2021 +
  • 2020 +
    • Clearview Estate Exhibition
  • 2019 New work
  • 3D
  • On paper to Dec 2019
  • 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