Karen Bell - Fine Art Photographer, Ottawa, Ontario

Karen creates Fine Art photography and has participated in many juried art shows and exhibitions, such as Toronto’s Artist Project, the Toronto One of A Kind show, Ottawa’s New Art Festival, Noir Art Festival and the Electric Street Gallery. She has held a solo exhibition at the Trinity Gallery in Ottawa and has had pieces exhibited with the Ottawa Art Gallery Annexe. She is also a Board member and juried artist with the Kanata Civic Art Gallery.

Based in Ottawa, but spending time in Toronto, Hamilton and summers in Muskoka, provides plenty of inspiring landscapes and waterscapes to nourish her creative appetite. The natural world draws and inspires her, and creating images provides connection: to the earth, to people, and experiences, past and present.

After graduating from Carleton University, Karen continued her education at Algonquin College graduating with Honours from the Photographic Arts program. After college, Karen worked at Valberg Imaging as a photographer and office/project manager. She now focuses her energy on her own fine art photographic works.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Capturing her photographic images in a single frame, Karen shoots in the ICM style (Intentional Camera Movement) giving her images a calming, serene, impressionistic and abstract look.

All the movement you see is created during the shooting process. By physically moving the camera as she shoots, and using her technical understanding along with her knowledge of light, she ‘crafts’ movement, and that offers a unique, serene perspective of water, land and forest.