Caroline is a late career change artist who was self taught up until she recently when she joined the alternative art school " The Essential School of Painting" Wood Green. She has just completed 4 years of study with the head of painting Dan Coombes and more recently with Hughie O'Donoghue RA.
During this time her work has evolved from large scale exuberantly coloured compositions of people captured in social gathering such as raves and hen parties and celebratory moments into more sombre dreamlike compositions that have become more contemplative and reflective.
"Growing up in a London in a family who came from farms in Ireland in the 60's and with a father who worked as an Excavator in the construction industry during this time. I have inherited a profound understanding of the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the land we inhabit. the use of earth and sand in my work has deep layered meaning for me. As my father and the generations before him all dug the land.... I now use my paint brush to extract my work from the layers of sand and oil. My narrative based figurative work delves antitheses of journeys, migration, loss and alienation. Through mediums like oil, acrylic , sand and earth. I paint to understand and unearth hidden histories and untold stories from my own past. Believing "where words fail, paintings can tell the tale" unravelling the layers of both personal and universal human experience with a quiet questioning and empathetic approach. "
