No. 7 ‘LUCKY’ Limited Edition Print
Edition ended 9th july 2026
No. 7 Lucky
Limited edition archive print
£45 + shipping
Signed and numbered
40 × 30cm print, ready to frame
40 × 30mm Timed, signed, limited edition print of the soft pastel work, Four is your favourite. Archive Quality, German Etching paper print.
This product includes the signed and numbered print and certification. This print is unframed and has a red border.
“This is No.7 Lucky. In the sense of where this work is taking the manta rays, the stars are beginning to come away from their body and fly amongst each other - a symbol of just breaking free of some of that chained up heavy experience. It shows that there’s a part of grief worth absolutely cherishing. Worth really leaning into. It’s this part you can’t see coming. The bit where you remember all the good stuff for just a moment and forget all of the bad stuff. Wild, playful and a little silly. Reminiscent of a time when pure discovery was happening as a kid.
Losing a parent is traumatic to the point where you question everything you thought you knew. This painting was about dropping the questions, even for a moment, and going for a swim in deluded bliss in beautiful, fun memories. Whilst making this piece I felt that my spirit ran free a little, lost in a literal dance for the most part.
I was listening to ‘She’s like a rainbow’ by The Rolling Stones while I made every minute of it. It’s a song my dad used to say reminded him of me. I love this song. I love the primary school feeling that the music gives. I love the unapologetic leaning into fabulous joy. I really wanted to reflect how special and sparky and crazy and silly my dad could be. It also reminded me how we could be together, in that state. The end of the song, where it gets all wonky, is a real reflection in this work. The parts that are still wonderful, even though completely imperfect.
The type of blue I’ve used is extremely strong in colour; a very pure pigment. Fully saturated, charged. I think my dad had ADHD and suffered cPTSD. He was extremely gifted and so much fun. He had the side to him that was electric with joy. Unfortunately, when he was sad or angry, he was also electric. I see a lot of similarities within us and I think this image captures what we had in common, and some of the parts we don’t. Either way it’s a beautiful dance, I managed to capture and suspend.”
- Karlee Hankin
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“This is No.7 Lucky. In the sense of where this work is taking the manta rays, the stars are beginning to come away from their body and fly amongst each other - a symbol of just breaking free of some of that chained up heavy experience. It shows that there’s a part of grief worth absolutely cherishing. Worth really leaning into. It’s this part you can’t see coming. The bit where you remember all the good stuff for just a moment and forget all of the bad stuff. Wild, playful and a little silly. Reminiscent of a time when pure discovery was happening as a kid.
Losing a parent is traumatic to the point where you question everything you thought you knew. This painting was about dropping the questions, even for a moment, and going for a swim in deluded bliss in beautiful, fun memories. Whilst making this piece I felt that my spirit ran free a little, lost in a literal dance for the most part.
I was listening to ‘She’s like a rainbow’ by The Rolling Stones while I made every minute of it. It’s a song my dad used to say reminded him of me. I love this song. I love the primary school feeling that the music gives. I love the unapologetic leaning into fabulous joy. I really wanted to reflect how special and sparky and crazy and silly my dad could be. It also reminded me how we could be together, in that state. The end of the song, where it gets all wonky, is a real reflection in this work. The parts that are still wonderful, even though completely imperfect.
The type of blue I’ve used is extremely strong in colour; a very pure pigment. Fully saturated, charged. I think my dad had ADHD and suffered cPTSD. He was extremely gifted and so much fun. He had the side to him that was electric with joy. Unfortunately, when he was sad or angry, he was also electric. I see a lot of similarities within us and I think this image captures what we had in common, and some of the parts we don’t. Either way it’s a beautiful dance, I managed to capture and suspend.”
- Karlee Hankin
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“No.6 Four is your favourite was a surprise. I didn't have a plan for this work but I knew I had a held feeling.
What I thought would be more experimental compared to my other pieces ended up being one of the most emotional pieces I've worked on. After I finished this, I had a moment to step back and look at the comp, when it hit me like a ton of bricks.
It felt exactly like the relationship I had with my father before he passed. It has so much in it that I cannot say out loud in something as simple as words. I was surprised to see that it carries the whole spectrum of emotions I felt throughout our life together - including fun, which I'm happy to say I remembered more fully having completed this work and will explore much more of.
It reminded me that he used to call me Bubbles. It reminded me that I used to call him ‘Daddy Pops’. He used to say ‘Karlee Pops’ back to that nickname. I remembered four was his favourite number, after realising this was number six. After making this I feel like I'm really feeling the grief well - more wholly. I hope so much that it does the same for someone else.”
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“No.5 Critical mass speaks very much for itself - it’s an exploration of the kinds of chaotic energy that bring about wild and free joy.
I think of it as (1000 ah-ha!s) x (1000 wahoo!s)
No rules, no one to answer to, mistakes are more than welcome and the world goes on in a no-holds-barred fashion. Each of the rays is a chaotic, messy being - but isn’t that a wonderful idea? The way I wonder if that’s the way life is meant to be.
I can imagine the whole sea is just lit up with the desires of the rays, bold and entirely cerulean! ”
Update: “I unpacked this piece and it asked more of me. It felt undone and unfinished. It’s the only artwork where I was certain I’d have to change it to be happy with it in this collection. The result is greener with an even bolder background.”- Karlee Hankin
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40 x 30cm
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“No.4 Make a wish carries a high sense of grief, but within each of the rays is a token of hope that all of us carry. That potential is emerging, despite it all. Each of the rays carries a story of their own, amongst peers. They have potential in the form of a star - all expressing themselves very differently, in the same space. The reds scarring downward in the wake of the swim, delivers how each of them express, and how those expressions might affect others. I was thinking a great deal about those closest to us, and the repetition of family stories / cycles. The stage at which we deliver ourselves from them, essentially.
I feel the colours successfully captured that underwater mixture of superb dark green and yellow-green plant life in bodies of water I’ve visited (and starred at), around the UK. The mixture of serenity overcoming the overwhelm is apparent - which makes me very happy in imagining the end of their story.”
- Karlee Hankin
No. 3 I get to decide Limited Edition Print
No. 3 I get to decide
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40 x 30cm
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“No.3 I get to decide is a bold exploration of stopping others in their overstep and choosing for the self. Making the conscious decision to say no. Making a deliberate choice to trust your own mind and express that you don’t want something. It’s about listening to your own code, your own inspiration.
In the throws of my life, because I am creative, I have had others frequently tell me what I should be doing. It’s not uncommon for creatives, as it’s a fluctuating career branch that points to being poor and struggling - very untrue in itself, but not to digress. People tend to offer unsolicited advice because you’re not doing things the way they think you could be. Or they way they would. To my shame, and pleasing tendencies, I have followed plenty of this advice when I have not resonated with it, sometimes for years, trying to make some sort of living and to please others.
When I follow this path I’m actively circling the drain - mentally, so to speak. I break out of it from time to time. But I know I need that space. To create, to express the way I need to. I don’t make art because it’s just nice. I make it because I have to. Like many, I’ve held my tongue when being told what I must do because being perceived as a difficult (female) artist would be such a terrible crime.
This work was a meditative practice on perceived control, perfectionism and thinking about my responsibilities. I wanted to hone in on the sense of what I want and need in an artwork. Not for anything, not to be manipulated or controlled in any way to make money - it exists only to be itself. We need reminding of that sentiment throughout society, in my opinion. Some might say it’s not finished, but they would be absolutely wrong. Its future is still ahead, wild and undone, but it is perfect just as it is. It doesn't need to be complete to be complete.For the record, I fucking hate being told what to do.”
- Karlee Hankin
No. 2 Don’t look Limited Edition Print
No. 2 Don’t look
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40 x 26cm
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“No.2 Don’t look is about potential. I feel this painting every time I surface from depression and get the gulp of ‘you’re worth it’ and ‘you’re enough’. Feeling not good enough, or rejected at a level of family can make simply being yourself exceptionally difficult around anyone. While creating this I was feeling deeply about what I have personally endured. It looks at the reality that we actually shine, and very brightly - that is, when you’re turned on by whatever turns you on. Perhaps I am a superb, vivid, alive creature with all the glowing potential in the world.
It’s a shame that feeling good, and showing it, also causes you to shrink again. It causes us to pull back, be embarressed, fit in. You become smaller again; a deliberate choice in size of this piece was made to show this in one way, and that your field of connection also grows smaller. You don’t fit into the version of yourself you’ve been portraying anymore.
This piece is a reminder that the glossy, vivacious version of each of us is in there - and as you do uncover yourself, you may also scream to be covered up. What if they judge? Well, they may not speak to you, or fuck you off entirely, actually.
That is a good thing, although finding a place within yourself where this is okay is so difficult. We’re mammals driven by connection, after all. But the others like you are out there, it’s just a tinier home. ”- Karlee Hankin
No. 1 barely there Limited Edition Print
No. 1 Barely there
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40 x 30cm
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No.1 Barely There was created at the height of the second mental health crisis in my life. It was a means of survival and release. The process became moments of catharsis, each mark smeared with a bare finger, in a raw and submerged reflection of fragility and endurance. I didn’t expect to be taken over the way I was, by this.
A closer look will reveal the underlying anger in what appears to be a soft and slow motion wasting away. A sense of lifting the viewer up, toward the light, though if you were to really think about the angle, these beautiful creatures; ‘manta’ meaning ‘blanket’ in Spanish, were swimming away. That protection, leaving. Slowly and painfully.
But continue, you must - to rise up. Throughout everything and anything that happens, we’re actually doing it together at least. We’re all going forward, each of us marked by our experiences, imperfect. What emerged from my own darkness is not just a single artwork, but the spark of something greater: the realisation that beauty, healing, and connection is in the going away - and then the rising up again.
This piece marks the point where pain and loss transforms into purpose. ”
- Karlee Hankin