"ZAZA" has been a heartfelt project since the artist's mother died suddenly in February 2023...
 
 Look Aboot Ye: Caring through the Covid pandemic
  Lillie Gallery, Milngavie
  2023
 
During the first months of the pandemic, Karen Strang painted and gifted over 90 portraits of key workers, home carers and shielders...
 
 Alchemy: A Visual Essay
  Weigh Ahead Gallery Dunblane
  2022
 
This exhibition is a painter's interpretation of the theme of Alchemy explored in a series of small paintings, works on paper and mixed media to form an intimate and meditative response from the viewer...
 
 Succubus
  City Contemporary Art, Perth
  2021
 
In this set of works, the artist reconsiders paintings from the classical Western tradition, where the female sex demon, the succubus, provided a fascinating, threatening other, a possession to be depicted and constrained...
 
 Heroes Here & Now: Caring through COVID
  Forth Valley Royal Hospital
  2020
 
During Lockdown I have been creating a set of portraits of frontline key workers...
 
 Syrena
  Helensburgh Art Hub
  2019
 
A long held fascination with powerful female archetypes has inspired my interest with Mermaids and Sirens...
 
 Elen Salt and Stone
  Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
  2019
 
The witchcraft trials of West Fife fascinate and disturb the artist Karen Strang...
 
 The Burn and the Tide
  Lillie Gallery, Milngavie
  2018
 
The good order of early industrial pre-Enlightenment Scotland was undermined by waves of panic about witchcraft, exploiting superstition to suppress the self-empowerment of the tenured labourers...
 
 Promontory 1874
  Pathfoot Gallery, University of Stirling
  2014
 
An exhibition of paintings based on the few known images of Arthur Rimbaud...