Karen Seapker's first solo exhibition, 'Stirring,' invites viewers to embrace winter as a season of healing and renewal. Inspired by the garden outside her studio, Seapker's paintings are rich in soothing, nature-derived colors that highlight winter's beauty. Her work conveys the idea of winter as a period of movement and realignment rather than stagnation. Utilizing swirling shapes and historical references, Seapker illustrates how this season prepares the ground for new growth, emphasizing the cyclical dynamics of life and nature's ongoing renewal.
Winter, both as a literal and a metaphorical season, is not a still, unproductive time. Rather, it is full of movement and quiet realignment.
Each year, plants and seeds adapt to the conditions they moved through in the previous growing season. The shape then, of a garden's trajectory, is more of a spiral than a circle.
The paintings in Stirring are infused with swirls of vibrant yet soothing colors derived from nature's own wintery palette: the misty blue of a frozen lake...
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