Karen Parody Artist Profile

Karen Parody

Karen is a freelance artist and designer and with a BA (Hons) degree and MA covering fashion, textiles and surface design. She has exhibited in numerous prestigious exhibitions throughout the UK and abroad. Karen relocated to Dubai in 2001 and has successfully continued a career as an artist.

Karen's work concentrates on creating abstract surfaces through a variety of mixed media. Her inspiration originates from sources such as architecture, order and chaos, and abstract images found in nature and captured through photography.

The decorative surfaces consist of materials such as wood, resin, silks, plastics, canvas, wires, waxes and inks. She is interested in the qualities involved in the creation and destruction of surfaces — regularity and irregularity — distortions of depth and surface through the use of transparency and translucency, and the relationship between minimal form and complex surface texture. Karen works closely with designers to produce artwork that can be incorporated into the architectural features of a space and innovatively displayed.

The work focuses on colour and texture and enhancing the interior of a space. Karen successfully gained commissions to produce artwork for offices, bars, restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, palaces, private villas and numerous exclusive hotels such as The Fairmont Dubai, Kempinsky Kuwait, Abu Dhabi Beach Rotana, Sheraton Abu Dhabi and Traders Hotel Dubai. She has also worked on numerous office projects at Knowledge Village, DIC, DMC and DIFC and show apartments for projects such as Jumierah Beach Residence, Damac and Dubai Festival City.

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