Our Memory of the Spring   Mixed Media on three panels - Each 16" x 5'
from Momentum - Contemporary Works by Canadian and Chinese Women Artists
Nanaimo Art Gallery, 2006

All content and images Karen Cain 2010.

The quiet, contemplative lifestyle, lived within the beauty of Gabriola Island,
informs all my work. Through large scale paintings, small 'suites',
and multi-media works on paper, I explore the transformation of nature
reflecting the transformation of self...  A perpetual death and rebirth.
Through the folding and unfolding of the physical world, I seek to record
the thin skin, stretched taut over the spiritual. It is the action of tearing back
the skin that engages me. Objects in landscape are rearranged to create
a sacred space, becoming something other than they were.