TUTORING
Carolyn is a freelance mobile art tutor, she can provide art and craft workshops for organisations, public and private sectors, in Hampshire, West Sussex and Wiltshire. View her workshop page for information of the types of workshops she can run, this isn't exhaustive and the workshops can be tailored to your location, budget, time frame and learner ability. Please contact Carolyn to dicuss your requirements.
Carolyn is a qualified art teacher, she completed her P.G.C.E in 1998 and most recently in 2016 she completed The City and Guilds Level 3 Award in Education and Training. Prior to this Carolyn completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Carolyn has been a self-employed artist since 2004, fitting work around raising a family. She works in a range of media such as painting with acrylics and watercolour, drawing, printmaking and textiles.
ART
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Artist Statement
My painting subjects are either abstract or landscape. I love the connection I have between a blank canvas and me, the journey each piece takes is truely unique, the creative process is all consuming and I love it. I work on several pieces at one time allowing the work to evolve and direct itself naturally, a sense of searching through the paint to find the painting.
Most recently I have been concentrating on the landscape as my subject, using acrylic paint on canvas, built by several layers of paint with glazes, finishing with drawing media. I am interested in the atmosphere of a landscape and how it can emerge through a foggy or misty air or how the sunlight can alter a sky's colour so dramatically. I am particularly interested with the worked landscape, a landscape carved by people always reminds me of a patchwork quilt, the shapes lines and colours are inspiring. I work from photos and gradually allow the painting to evolve through the creative process in an impressionistic style, using a sgraffito method, which for me correlates with the worked landscape.
In my abstract paintings I use fluid acrylics and acrylic pens on watercolour paper, again a layering process which is guided very much by the marks that are made one after the other and my response to them to find the balance and rhythm, I am most interested in the expressive nature of this work, a true reflection of my feelings in that specific moment.