Terms and conditions

Last updated: 31 October 2026

This website is owned and run by Karen Wykerd, a visual artist in Cape Town, South Africa. These terms apply when you use this website and when you communicate with Karen, whether through the contact form, by email, on WhatsApp or on social media. By doing so, you agree to them.

Copyright in the artworks

The artworks, photographs of artworks, images, film and text on this website are protected by the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 and by international copyright law. Copyright belongs to Karen Wykerd or, for some photographs and film, to the people who made them. All rights are reserved.

Viewing and sharing

You may view the images on this website in your browser, share a link to this website or to an artwork, and use the share buttons on an artwork's page. Viewing or sharing a link does not give you any rights in the artwork. Nothing here takes away what South African copyright law itself allows, such as fair dealing for private study, criticism or review, with Karen credited as the artist.

What you may not do without written permission

Unless Karen has agreed in writing, you may not:

• save, download, screenshot or copy an image, or get around the steps this website takes to protect its images
• print or reproduce an image, on paper, canvas or anything else
• make or sell posters, cards, clothing, homeware or other products from an image
• sell, license or give away copies, including as digital files or NFTs
• change, crop, filter or adapt an image, or make a new work copied from it
• use an image in advertising, branding, a publication, a business website or a business's social media
• use an image to train, or as a prompt for, artificial intelligence or other software, or collect images in bulk by automated means
• remove Karen's name, signature or any credit, or present her work as anyone else's

Asking for permission

To ask about using an image, for example for a publication, an exhibition or a licensed print, please write to Karen through the contact page. Say which work you would like to use, how, where and for how long. Permission counts only when it is given by Karen in writing, and only for the use it names.

If an image is misused

If you see Karen's work used without permission, please let her know. Karen may ask for it to be removed and may take any steps the law allows, including claiming damages. If Karen does not act on a particular misuse, she has not given up her rights.

Buying an artwork

Artworks are not sold through this website, and any sale is agreed directly with Karen or with the gallery showing the work, on their own terms. A sale is agreed only once Karen or the gallery has confirmed it in writing.

Buying an artwork gives you ownership of that physical work. The copyright stays with Karen unless she transfers it in a signed written agreement, so owning a work does not give you the right to reproduce it. This does not affect any rights you have under the Consumer Protection Act that cannot be taken away.

Communicating with Karen

Messages to and from Karen are for information. An enquiry, a reply or a statement about a price or availability is not a binding offer, and a work is reserved only if Karen says so in writing, for the time she states.

Emails from Karen and anything attached to them are meant for the person they are addressed to and may be confidential. If one reaches you by mistake, please tell Karen and delete it. Images, price lists and other material Karen sends you are covered by the copyright rules above, and may not be published or passed on for commercial use without her permission.

Email and messaging are not completely secure, and a message may be delayed or not arrive. Before you make any payment, please confirm the banking details by speaking directly to Karen or the gallery.

When you send Karen a message, please keep it honest and respectful, and send only material you have the right to send. Karen may keep your messages as set out in the privacy policy, and is not obliged to reply. She may decline or stop any conversation.

Using this website

Please do not interfere with this website, try to reach parts of it that are not public, or copy its content in bulk. Karen may block anyone who does.

About what you see here

Every effort is made to keep the details on this website correct, but mistakes can happen, and a work shown as available may already have sold. Colours and textures can look different on a screen than they do in person.

Links to other websites

This website links to galleries, social media and WhatsApp. Those services have their own terms, and Karen is not responsible for them.

Liability

This website is offered as it is. As far as the law allows, Karen is not liable for any loss that comes from using it or from relying on what it says. Nothing in these terms limits liability for gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing, or any right the law does not allow to be limited.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change from time to time. The version on this page is the one that applies.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the law of South Africa, and South African courts may decide any dispute about them. If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.

Contact

For questions about these terms, please use the contact page or write to art@karenwykerd.com.