Bold contemporary paintings exploring light, colour and form
Carolyn’s deep fascination with paint; its physicality, unpredictability, and expressive potential, drives an experimental approach to image-making.
Whether responding to the natural world or interpreting narratives through photographs, Carolyn explores how paint can communicate colour, texture, emotion, and memory through playful, intuitive processes like pouring, scraping, stitching, and collaging.
Carolyn’s latest pieces
Pink Joy
Aqua joy
Purple Joy
The Finding Joy Collection
This body of work emerged from a conscious decision to let go of expected outcomes and embrace an intuitive, emotionally driven approach to painting.
Rooted in the sheer joy of mark-making, it draws inspiration from organic forms - angel trumpets, leaves, trees - and explores themes of femininity, growth, and personal evolution. It reflects Carolyn’s celebration of mature womanhood, self-confidence, and the quiet courage that comes with age and experience.
Carolyn in the studio
Although oil paint is her primary medium, Carolyn’s work deliberately blurs the boundaries of traditional fine art.
She sometimes begins with a photographic image, but more often of late the work is an emotional response to the subject, slowly building layers of meaning and material through mark-making, pattern, and texture, allowing surprise and curiosity to lead the way.