Karen Sikora
‘After She Left’
Mixed media on canvas, 2014
Karen Sikora’s painting ‘After She Left’, offered us an entrance that, when gazed into, began to reveal rich scenes. A sense of spaciousness and imagination arose as I took steps into the painting, moving aside leaves and branches to reveal a hidden and living depth.
Karen notes that this work was, “painted after my mam died, I was exhausted, broken and it took all of my energy just to paint a tiny bit but I painted every day and it helped my recovery.”
Sometimes we just need the space to breathe, as we were afforded the opportunity with Karen Sikora’s performance, ‘The Experiment - Wait/Look/Listen’. Dreamlike, this performance invited the audience to participate in 15 minutes of silence, at the end of an action packed opening night.