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
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'...house sized rocks resting like butterflies in the valley...ihlara'

The ‘Ihlara’ series of five pieces celebrate the beauty of the valley 
of the same name in Kapadokya, Turkey, where I walked in April 15 years ago. 

There were few people about, and the rocks, some as big as houses, tumbled into my memory, much as they seemed still to be in movement though they were quite still. The trees were lightly-leaved slender chartreuse.

In contrast, Acqua (now available at Kina Gallery) and Transcience bounced off the feeling of the little river running through the Ihlara valley. 

Karen Sole January 2019 
Ihlara: Tumbling Rocks II
Acrylic on canvas 102 x 102 cm
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Ihlara: Tumbling Rocks I 
Acrylic on canvas 102 x 102 cm
NFS

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I worked on the two Ihlara: Tumbling Rocks pieces, side by side,
to create works that could be hung like that, or apart.
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Ihlara Orange Acrylic on canvas 102 x 102 cm
Available at Kina Design + Artspace New Plymouth 
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Ihlara III has sold.
Private collection Tauranga.
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​Larger view at 2016 - 2018
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Ihlara Veils
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 102 cm
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Ihlara Mixed media on canvas 92 x 72 cm 
Available at Tennyson Gallery, Napier
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Acqua Acrylic on canvas 102 x 102 cm 
Available at Kina Design + Artspace New Plymouth
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Transcience
Acrylic on canvas
75 x 100 cm
NFS
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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