Caren
I am a British artist who lives and works in the Netherlands. I am an IBDP Visual Art teacher but I Painting for me is a way to consolidate feeling and memory with the experience of seeing and working with art materials. I choose the natural world as a vehicle for my images, as I believe it is something we are profoundly tied to and will instinctually respond to. My previous work in printmaking and art therapy also inform and influence my painting, as do concerns regarding the climate crisis and the impending sense of loss from that.
My process for making paintings went through a change about 6 years ago when I stopped using only brushes due to a worsening hand tremor. During this time, I developed a method of using printmaking equipment - rollers, rags, squeegees etc., as well as household items, to layer and pull away acrylic paint from the surface. There’s a lot more chance involved in this process and I welcome what may “just happen” as the image evolves. A painting is finished when the image evokes an atmospheric mood, often with an air of mystery or nostalgia, a sense of a place that may not be recognisable or fully describable, but known and felt on a deeper level.
My process for making paintings went through a change about 6 years ago when I stopped using only brushes due to a worsening hand tremor. During this time, I developed a method of using printmaking equipment - rollers, rags, squeegees etc., as well as household items, to layer and pull away acrylic paint from the surface. There’s a lot more chance involved in this process and I welcome what may “just happen” as the image evolves. A painting is finished when the image evokes an atmospheric mood, often with an air of mystery or nostalgia, a sense of a place that may not be recognisable or fully describable, but known and felt on a deeper level.
