What does it mean to be human? Karen explores the hope she continually finds in her intrinsic search for purpose and meaning, set against the unpredictability and turmoil that is life in the 21st century. “As a computer programmer my world is filled with analysing problems and logical solutions. Art has become my release, my balance, the place where I am able to search out mystery.”

Karen completed her Computer Science studies at UJ (then RAU) in 1991 and followed a career in software development for over 20 years. Through the years, she cultivated her love for art by attending art classes and workshops and joining various art groups as often as she could.

Changing career has been a gradual process she says, but these days she proudly introduces herself as an artist, and programming has now become her part-time hobby.

Karen is a multi-disciplinary artist, painting with oils, water-based mediums, paper collage, charcoal, and even digital media. She has a great love for expressive mark making. Since she joined a life figure drawing group in 2019, she has fallen in love with portraiture and depicting the human figure.

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Lift up your Eyes

Name: Lift up your Eyes
SKU: 243340
Price: 3549.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock

R3549,00

Artist: Karen Harkema
Title: Lift up your eyes
Size: 300mm x 400mm
Medium: Oil on board

Ornate silver frame

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SKU: 243340 Categories: Karen Harkema, Oil Paintings, Painting, Competition work, 2021 Art Competition, Figures and Form

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Artist: Karen Harkema
Title: Lift up your eyes
Size: 300mm x 400mm
Medium: Oil on board

Ornate silver frame

Additional Info:
“Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging,” Brené Brown. A contemporary work after Guido Reni’s “Saint Sebastian” (1625) According to one biographer, Reni boasted about being able to “paint heads with their eyes uplifted in a hundred different ways” to portray ecstasy or divine inspiration.’