About Caroline

Caroline can remember observing and drawing things around her from a very young age. She studied art at school and university and gained a four year BA (Fine Arts) Honours Degree, achieving firsts for Painting and Design. Thereafter she painted huge backdrops and edited scenes while in the film Industry.

Since arriving in Perth over twenty years ago, Caroline has actively embraced the vibrant West Australian art scene. She has won a multitude of prizes for paintings in watercolours, oils, acrylics and pastels. She ran two plein air workshops in conjunction with the McCubbin exhibition for the Gallery of West Australia and has judged three art competitions including for the Pastel Society of West Australia.

Caroline teaches 5 adult art classes a week at two different art centres and enjoys sharing her knowledge of watercolours, pastels, oils and acrylics.

She accepts commissions gladly and has picked up some very worthwhile ones, for example the portrait of a benefactor for Bush Heritage Australia and recently a large colourful still-life painting for a new home in Nedlands.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

My paintings are individual in style and capture moments in time. Every day, at all times of day, I see paintings in everything I look at- be it people interacting, an old wrinkled face, a sunset over water, or flowers on a windowsill. I want to interpret them all. I have learnt to accept my diverse style and technique but I continually strive to tie myself down to one interpretation of the world which is dramatic and exciting.