Water Stories

a 14 part Collection

Black and white silhouette of an arrow pointing downward.

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Barely There
No. 1

£1900

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 1 'Barley there' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,900.00

This piece comes ready to hang with museum grade low reflection glass.

“The very first piece in the Water Stories collection; the one that began them all.

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

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Suite of Christmas cards featuring a pattern of holly leaves and berries on a dark background, with a red border and gold signature.

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Don’t look
No. 2

£950

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
47.5 x 40cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 2 'Don't look' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£950.00

This piece comes ready to hang with museum grade low reflection glass.

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 actaully 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

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I get to decide
No. 3

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 3 'I get to decide' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,100.00

This piece comes ready to hang with museum grade low reflection glass.

“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

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Make a wish
No. 4

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 4 'Make a wish' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,100.00

Framed and glazed with museum grade anti-reflection glass. Soft pastel on cotton Italian paper.

“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. Each has its potential in the form of a star and all expressing themselves very differently, in the same space. The reds scarring downward in the wake of the swim deliver how each of them express fundamentally, 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 thier story. ”

- Karlee Hankin

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Critical mass
No. 5

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 5 'Critical mass' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,100.00

Framed and glazed with museum grade anti-reflection glass. Soft pastel on cotton Italian paper.

“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! ”

- Karlee Hankin

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Four is your favourite
No. 6

£950

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
47.5 x 40cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 6 Four is your favourite
£950.00

More detail coming soon.

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A stack of colorful cards with abstract blue, red, and white artwork, arranged in a fanned-out manner on a red background.

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Lucky
No. 7

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 7 Lucky
£1,100.00

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Lighter (left)
No.8

£950

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
47.5 x 40cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

Lighter (right)
No. 9

£950

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
47.5 x 40cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 8 Golden tears (left)
£950.00

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No. 8 Golden tears (right)
£950.00

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Self portrait
No. 10

£700

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
30 x 38cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 10 Self portrait
£700.00

Deatils coming soon

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Softly
No. 11

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 11 'Softly' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,100.00

This piece comes ready to hang with museum grade low reflection glass.

“Details coming soon

- Karlee Hankin

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Where we said goodbye
No. 12

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 12 'Where we said goodbye' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,100.00

This piece comes ready to hang with museum grade low reflection glass.

“Details coming soon

- Karlee Hankin

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Echoes
No. 13

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
80 x 65cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 13 'Echos' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,100.00

This piece comes ready to hang with museum grade low reflection glass.

“Details coming soon

- Karlee Hankin

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Pool
No. 14

£1100

Original soft pastel on Italian paper
65 x 80cm, framed with museum glazing.
Ready to hang.

No. 14 'Pool' Original Soft Pastel Painting
£1,100.00

This piece comes ready to hang with museum grade low reflection glass.

“Details coming soon

- Karlee Hankin

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