title: Karen Newman (artist)
text: # Karen Newman (artist)
  
  Karen Newman MRBS (born 20 January 1951) is a British-born sculptor, best known for her bronze bust of Violette Szabo on the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, outside Lambeth Palace in London.
  
  ## Career
  
  Newman was trained at the Chelsea School of Art for a Pre-Diploma 1969–1970, then on to the City and Guilds Art School in Kennington, London 1970–1972. From 1980 to 2001 Newman worked at Madame Tussauds in London. Among her subjects were:
  
  * The Duke of Edinburgh
  * Charlie Chaplin
  * The late ex-Prime Minister Harold Wilson
  * Sarah, Duchess of York
  * Stevie Wonder
  * Eric Clapton
  * Bob Geldof
  * Prime Minister Tony Blair
  * The late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin
  * Jeroen Krabbé. Dutch film actor, painter.
  * Chancellor Helmut Kohl
  * Jean-Paul Gaultier
  * Yoko Ono
  * Charles Dance
  * Hugh Grant
  * Billy Connolly
  
  Newman's life-size waxwork of Charlie Chaplin was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
  
  In 2008, a bronze bust of Violette Szabo was unveiled at the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, in front of Lambeth Palace.
  
  