Karin Harris
I love the way that an old song can evoke a specific memory from years back and how a smell can remind us of an event from our childhood.
Our 5 senses act as a powerful trigger to return us to the past. It can catch us unaware at times when a song will come on the radio and we are transported back to that time and place where the memory lives. At times we can trigger a nostalgic memory from a taste or specific smell experienced from childhood. Artefacts and memorabilia that we touch can place us back in time.
As a mixed media artist and using the medium of photography, drawing, collage, glass & printmaking my work explores the theme of Identity, Memory, Time and Place. I love old buildings and how they have a story to tell of what has gone before. By using collected materials, artefacts and ephemera as a starting point my objective is to connect our senses to a distant and maybe forgotten memory. I am looking into our childhood influences and upbringing and how they can give us a sense of belonging to place. Can an innate ability to tap into our Intangible Cultural Heritage allow us to have a feeling of 'home'?
I am interested to know why we can feel a connection (a sixth sense?) through our heritage to a place that we may never have lived in. Can a feeling of belonging be successfully nurtured and accessible for newcomers to a community?
Take 10-20 minutes out of each day to make
A Mixed Media Mindfulness Sketchbook
3 week online workshop showing
a range of simple printmaking, weaving, collage, painting & mark making techniques.
Time out each day to focus, create & play.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
+ A box of mixed media/collage material papers & art supplies kit in a box available to purchase.
I love working with the old processes in photography with the old manual film cameras and then processing and playing with the negatives in the darkroom. I have also been experimenting with cyanotype as you don’t need a darkroom just the sun to expose some wonderful images. There is then nothing better that I like to do than to experiment and work across the mediums of textiles, paint, drawing and printing in all its guises to incorporate into my work.
Living on the beautiful North coast of Cornwall I am aware of the problem that we have with plastic pollution in our oceans. There are regular Beach Cleans around our coastline quite often focusing on the micro plastics that are sadly in wide abundance. I am always thinking and finding out about new ways to recycle the single use plastics and packaging waste that is all around us. I would love to share my ideas and ways of incorporating it into my work with you.
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