Karen Camkins practice draws on botanical symbolism, folklore and medicinal histories and examines how the natural world mirrors human experience. She creates multi-layered immersive pieces that move between abstraction and figuration. When They Fall is a variable edition (4) and the two pieces are intentionally different in feel. The sky (above) is fluid and the ground (below) is fixed and rooted. Combining reduction woodcut with monotype and collage her work focuses on the handmade and material quality of making. She recently graduated from the RCA in Print and has an MA in Fine Art Painting (distinction) from Gloucestershire University (2012) and has exhibited in The Lynn Painter Stainer Prize, Discerning Eye, the National Trust, Nature in Art Museum & Gallery and the St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery. In 2025 her new work was selected for a group exhibition at Watson Farley & Williams that highlighted issues around the natural world and humans’ impact on it; curated by Dickson Russell Art Management. Her work has recently been acquired by The Royal College of Art’s Collection, Clifford Chance’s Print Collection and Travers Smith’s Art Collection.
Karen Camkins practice draws on botanical symbolism, folklore and medicinal histories and examines how the natural world mirrors human experience. She creates multi-layered immersive pieces that move between abstraction and figuration. When They Fall is a variable edition (4) and the two pieces are intentionally different in feel. The sky (above) is fluid and the ground (below) is fixed and rooted. Combining reduction woodcut with monotype and collage her work focuses on the handmade and material quality of making. She recently graduated from the RCA in Print and has an MA in Fine Art Painting (distinction) from Gloucestershire University (2012) and has exhibited in The Lynn Painter Stainer Prize, Discerning Eye, the National Trust, Nature in Art Museum & Gallery and the St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery. In 2025 her new work was selected for a group exhibition at Watson Farley & Williams that highlighted issues around the natural world and humans’ impact on it; curated by Dickson Russell Art Management. Her work has recently been acquired by The Royal College of Art’s Collection, Clifford Chance’s Print Collection and Travers Smith’s Art Collection.
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