Karen Marshall Artist Printmaker

28/03/2026

Taking a moment to peruse the new NYOS brochure. Hot off the press. More details available from the website : www.nyos.org.uk

28/02/2026

Life Drawing at Miss Havershams Bookshop in Bedale - a once a month opportunity to draw from some fabulous life models.
Session organised by Liz Harvey

18/02/2026

Experimenting with various media. Conte, inktense sticks, water soluble graphite, caran d’ache neocolour…
West Burton Falls… where we used to splash around as children.

13/10/2025

Getting ready to for a winter NYOS. Just had a delivery of cards. I still get a frisson of excitement when the parcel of cards arrives from the printers.

£2.95 each. Available from The Wonky Tree bookshop, Leyburn and from me.

13/10/2025

Thank you Jemma Forte. So if we left the ECHR it would make almost zero difference to immigration ... but what difference would it make to YOUR human rights?

As Reform and the Tories are yet again gaslighting ordinary people with extraordinary disinformation which will remove THEIR OWN fundamental human rights ... which of these protections do you object to?

CORE PROTECTIONS
*Right to life: Prohibits the arbitrary taking of human life.
*Freedom from torture and inhuman treatment: Prohibits torture and any inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
*Freedom from slavery: Prohibits slavery, servitude, and forced or compulsory labor.
*Right to liberty and security: Protects against arbitrary arrest and detention.
*Right to a fair trial: Guarantees a right to a fair and public hearing before an independent tribunal.
*No punishment without law: Prevents punishment for an act that was not a criminal offense under national or international law at the time it was committed.
*Respect for private and family life: Protects an individual's private life, family life, home, and correspondence.
*Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion: Guarantees the right to hold any belief and to manifest it within certain limitations.
*Freedom of expression: Includes freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas.
*Freedom of assembly and association: Protects the right to peaceful assembly and to form or join associations, such as trade unions.

OTHER KEY RIGHTS
*Protection of property: Guarantees the peaceful enjoyment of possessions.
*Right to education: Includes the right to education and sets limits on the state's ability to interfere with education.
*Right to free elections: Ensures that the will of the people is reflected in the government.
*Protection from discrimination: Prohibits discrimination on grounds such as s*x, race, color, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, or property, but does not extend to all grounds.

13/10/2025

Interesting. I wonder where it is now…
Update: It’s in the church at Giggleswick. Good news as so often windows either lie in a diocesan store somewhere or are sold into private hands.

The Mysterious Stained Glass of St Alkelda’s Church, Giggleswick

Many Ricardians know that there are just two churches in the world dedicated to St Alkelda, one is in Middleham and the other in Giggleswick, but very few are aware of a mysterious stained glass in the latter. The whole matter started with a parish fair. Parishioners from both churches were looking for items to sell at a coming fair in a parish room.

The two parishioners came across a pile of very old newspapers and were going through them to see if they contained something important, but it was at the bottom of that pile that they made an incredible discovery. There was a beautiful stained glass, 2.5ft high, that showed a woman being strangled with her feet in water, the exact description of St Alkelda’s martyrdom. It was the Rev Hilary Young, then priest in charge, who identified the figure as St Alkelda.
Read more on Murrey and Blue here: https://murreyandblue.co.uk/?p=64600

12/09/2025

11/09/2025

Autumn is arriving here. What to call this painting. Any ideas?
Pastel on pastelmat paper 9x12 inches

07/08/2025

Experimenting with collographs these last few days. Time cement on parer: card was the starting point.

31/07/2025

Just back from Singapore, Cambodia, and Thailand where we had a funeral to attend.
Met some really interesting people on our travels, a physio from NorthTees hospital on her way to visit family in Pakistan, two women volunteers in St Andrews Cathdral in Singapore who were wonderfully welcoming, two folk from Australia who were snatching a few days in Cambodia after a family get together, a really helpful tuc tuc driver in Siem Reap… and extended family in Thailand. And lastly a woman and her 3 year old daughter who had flown home from Pakistan two weeks early because it was so hot. The world is both very big and very small all at the same time. Not much time to do proper sketching sadly so some quick drawings that are part of my holiday diary.

27/06/2025

Gooseberries, cream, custard, sugar… becoming Gooseberry fool - tomorrow’s pudding.