Studio Practice

Using only the highest quality oil paints, Carol begins each new piece with thin washes of just one or two colours. A simple composition is quickly, spontaneously sketched out, allowing the paint to run freely.
This under-painting is then worked into, removing pigment to add detail and bring back light, then blending and blurring to soften the effect in certain areas. Carol then uses thinning agents to disperse the pigment in exciting ways, experimenting with the medium to create different effects until the essence of an image begins to emerge. The resulting piece is then left to dry for a few days.

Building the following layers almost subconsciously, Carol enters a dialogue with the image that may last weeks, sometimes months, as she embarks on a passionate journey of exploration through colour, form, light, and energy, into the dimensions of sensation, imagination and ideas. Using layers of transparent glazes partially blended with opaque pigment, Carol shows great sensitivity to the resonance in certain colour combinations as she creates a sense of depth combined with a wonderful glowing light. Sometimes sections are masked out and worked on separately in complementary colours to create a further dimension whilst adding dynamic tension and structure to the piece.