Totem Figures - Karen McLaughlin
Audio Interview with Karen McLaughlin
Karen McLaughlin is a visual artist and writer, based in Thetis Island, BC. In her interview she talks about her new novel From This Distance, about growing up in the Maritimes, going to art school in her thirties, the Group of Seven, her feminist awakening and Daphne Marlatt's novel Ana Historic.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Karen McLaughlin draws, paints, takes photographs and writes novels and blog entries. You can listen to her read excerpts from her novels Choral (published by The Press Gang) and From This Distance (published by Cormorant Books).
These works of visual art are copyright
© 2009, Karen McLaughlin.
The Group of Seven was a group of seven Canadian landscape painters who rose to prominence in the 1920s. Their work inspired Emily Carr, Tom Thompson and The Rheostatics. You can peruse their work online, or see it person at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinberg, Ontario.
Vancouver based poet and novelist Daphne Marlatt appears briefly (accompanied by the musical saw) in this collection of highlights from the Poetry Gabriola Festival. The novel mentioned in the interview is
Feminism and Post-Modernism are two wide-ranging and significant topics with a great breadth of reading material available. Dive in!
Here’s some more of Karen’s visual art
These two black and white pieces and the colourful one above are details from larger pieces.
This drawing is a detail from a larger work
