Saddler’s Court Gallery


offers the work of more than 100 Tasmanian artists and crafts people. We choose each piece personally, not in terms of what is fashionable or what sells best, but according to its ability to reflect something of Tasmania.

Karen Marlowe

Essentially a self taught artist, having been side tracked for several years into academic pursuits, with a PhD in English Literature. She has travelled extensively, studying art in the great galleries of Britain, Europe, Russia, China, the USA and South East Asia.

Eclectic in style and varied in subject matter, Karen, the “perpetual learner” loves experimenting in different media (watercolour, oils, acrylics, pastels) to paint subjects that appeal to her because of their character. Old buildings with their rusty roofs, weathered wooden cladding or mellowed stone, farmyard animals, studies of horses, flowers, abstracted landscapes, figure work, all these are “grist for the mill” for this artist.
 
Karen has had solo exhibitions around Tasmania, and has participated in many group exhibitions both here and interstate. She has won many prizes for her paintings and her work is now represented in private as well as public collections.