My work is based between the outer world of nature and the inner world of imaginings. Working with woodcut I am inspired by landscape and by narrative; fairytale, current events, and to both personal and cultural story.
My printmaking is about my own reality, current unease at the world situation, discordance, a timeless quality inhabited by human and animal characters. The images express the uncanniness in everyday reality, a magical realism. The balancing act in survival of species together. Colour is important as character in the narrative contributing its own disquiet and juxtaposition, playful and foreboding.
I enjoy working with both collagraph and multi-coloured woodcuts using the reduction process. I am drawn to the slow process that woodcut production involves when working with many colours letting the next stage take shape in my mind. I am drawn to the physicality of the whole process, using tools and knives, the smell of paint and ink. You cannot go back with the reduction process, any 'mistake' has to be worked with and at the end you are free to start a new print as you cannot ever print it again.
I am inspired by the work of Paula Rego, Peter Doig and Ken Kiff
My printmaking is about my own reality, current unease at the world situation, discordance, a timeless quality inhabited by human and animal characters. The images express the uncanniness in everyday reality, a magical realism. The balancing act in survival of species together. Colour is important as character in the narrative contributing its own disquiet and juxtaposition, playful and foreboding.
I enjoy working with both collagraph and multi-coloured woodcuts using the reduction process. I am drawn to the slow process that woodcut production involves when working with many colours letting the next stage take shape in my mind. I am drawn to the physicality of the whole process, using tools and knives, the smell of paint and ink. You cannot go back with the reduction process, any 'mistake' has to be worked with and at the end you are free to start a new print as you cannot ever print it again.
I am inspired by the work of Paula Rego, Peter Doig and Ken Kiff
Caroline has shown work in the following Group and Open Exhibitions
2023 Love Letter to Printmaking, Edinburgh Printmakers
2023 Project Babel, Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre, Finland
2023 Friends of the RWA Create Centre Gallery
2022 Bath Society of Artists 117th Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery Bath
2022 Friends of the RWA Create Centre Gallery
2022 Spike Print Open, Spike Print Bristol
2020/1 RWA 168th Annual Open Exhibition
2020 Hybrid Migration Exhibition at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2020 44AD Gallery, Bath. Edition 6 City and Stars
2019 The Masters Relief, Bankside Gallery, London
2019 Black Swan Arts Open, Frome
2019 Scene Exhibition at the Bristol University Theatre Collection
2019 Bath Society of Artists 114th Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2019 Spike Print Open, Spike Print, Bristol
2018 Hybrid at Christmas Steps Gallery, Bristol
2018 Spike Print Open, Spike Print, Bristol
2017 Impress(e) at Spike Print, Bristol
2017 Spike Print Open, Spike Print, Bristol
2016 Hybrid at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2016 La Journee de L'Estampe Contemporaine, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris
2016 44AD Gallery, Bath. Edition 2
2016 Spike Print Open, 40th Anniversary, Bristol
2016 Bath Society of Artists 111th Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2015 Encre, Romainville, Paris
2015 Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2015 Second Nature at The Gallery, The Island, Bristol
2015 Exchange Exhibition: University of the West of England/Hong Kong Open Printshop, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
2015 UWE MA Post Graduate Degree Show, Bristol
2014/5 Mini-Print exhibition at Foyles Bookshop, Bristol.
2014 Hybrid@ BRLSI, BATH
2014 First Impressions at The Create Centre, Bristol
2014 Spike Print Open
2013 RWA Open Autumn Exhibition
2013 North Somerset Arts Week
2012 Hybrid at Centrespace Gallery
2012 Shine Tinsel Print Exhibition at the Bristol Theatre Collection
2012 RWA Open Autumn Exhibition
2023 Love Letter to Printmaking, Edinburgh Printmakers
2023 Project Babel, Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre, Finland
2023 Friends of the RWA Create Centre Gallery
2022 Bath Society of Artists 117th Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery Bath
2022 Friends of the RWA Create Centre Gallery
2022 Spike Print Open, Spike Print Bristol
2020/1 RWA 168th Annual Open Exhibition
2020 Hybrid Migration Exhibition at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2020 44AD Gallery, Bath. Edition 6 City and Stars
2019 The Masters Relief, Bankside Gallery, London
2019 Black Swan Arts Open, Frome
2019 Scene Exhibition at the Bristol University Theatre Collection
2019 Bath Society of Artists 114th Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2019 Spike Print Open, Spike Print, Bristol
2018 Hybrid at Christmas Steps Gallery, Bristol
2018 Spike Print Open, Spike Print, Bristol
2017 Impress(e) at Spike Print, Bristol
2017 Spike Print Open, Spike Print, Bristol
2016 Hybrid at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2016 La Journee de L'Estampe Contemporaine, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris
2016 44AD Gallery, Bath. Edition 2
2016 Spike Print Open, 40th Anniversary, Bristol
2016 Bath Society of Artists 111th Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2015 Encre, Romainville, Paris
2015 Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2015 Second Nature at The Gallery, The Island, Bristol
2015 Exchange Exhibition: University of the West of England/Hong Kong Open Printshop, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
2015 UWE MA Post Graduate Degree Show, Bristol
2014/5 Mini-Print exhibition at Foyles Bookshop, Bristol.
2014 Hybrid@ BRLSI, BATH
2014 First Impressions at The Create Centre, Bristol
2014 Spike Print Open
2013 RWA Open Autumn Exhibition
2013 North Somerset Arts Week
2012 Hybrid at Centrespace Gallery
2012 Shine Tinsel Print Exhibition at the Bristol Theatre Collection
2012 RWA Open Autumn Exhibition