Karen Keogh

My 3 plate colour etchings are primarily concerned with exploring the landscape or cityscape. I make visual sense of the scene before me by finding natural patterns and rhythms within it. I describe the colour, using my own interpretation. Using a combination of warm and cool colours, I  create visual depth. Intense colour helps in representing mood, light and space. Within the finished work, I hope to create an atmospheric and individual response.

Colour is to me the most thrilling element of the printmaking process. It has remained my passion from my early days of making a print.

I was elected as an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in January 2008. In 2011, I became a full member (RE). I regularly show work at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. My work is held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The University of Aberystwyth print collection, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Parliamentary Art Collection.