Karen Griffiths - Enchantment

Winter Scene Painting in Oil on Canvas

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“We have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. They are on the same journey, but each takes a different path." Steve Maraboli

The artist loves words and they always find a way into her paintings. This winter scene painting captures the delicate moment when night yields to dawn. As the sun begins to rise and the sky lingers in twilight, this piece invites you into a tranquil, enchanting space. 'Enchantment is this painting. You can read the words scribbled into the paint ‘flocons sont jamais la meme’.

Karen Griffiths

The British artist Karen Griffiths, who has been living in Morzine for 20 years, creates sensitive and delicate works inspired by her travels and the mountains.

Karen’s paintings show her magical connection with the world around her. Her paintings are richly textured and she often, so delicately, embellishes the painted canvas with pencil touches. Fascinated by the ever-changing seasons, she particularly loves winter and its many shades of white.

The silence and the white cloak that softens contours inspire her delicate palette of colours, a mix of abstraction and figurative, blurred landscapes, carved by ski tracks, scratchy ski lifts or a few ghostly spruce trees. Pink-grey, fuchsia yellow, or night blue, the mountains seem solitary and introspective… 

New works, inspired by her surroundings, now hang alongside intimate portraits of children and old people with intense expressions, taken from her travel sketches. Whether faces or landscapes, her works always suggest an emotion or a moment captured in time.