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United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 40.2 W x 40.2 H x 1.2 D in
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Much of my work is contemplative and meditative. This painting embodies that moment of stillness before movement. The drips are the pausing to take a breath, of focusing my energy and concentration before putting brush to canvas. The quiet before the action and a building-up of energy within the body. The act of painting is, for me, very fast and involves my entire body. I work on the floor so move around the canvas, making the shapes that end up on the surface. My paintings are a transfer of energy from me to the canvas which then transmit that to the viewer. A never-ending circularity embodying life. There is a subtle interplay of texture and colour between the layers of gesso and ink, something that can only really be appreciated when looking closely. It rewards slow looking as reveals more at each viewing.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:40.2 W x 40.2 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Caroline is an Anglo-French artist now based in London after living in India and China for several years. Her work centres around the energy and memory of gesture and this includes a fascination with the circle, the most elemental and universal shape in nature and in every culture on earth. It is also the largest shape any human can make with their body. She discovered Neolithic Chinese Bi, nephrite discs known to be extremely important but utterly mysterious. This concept of loss and importance resonated with her at a time of personal bereavement and the use of the shape is a key part of her visual vocabulary. Observational drawings of conductor Marin Alsop in rehearsal with the BBC Symphony orchestra for various concerts including music by Shostakovich and Sir James MacMillan, sport, quantum mechanics and most recently experiments in virtual reality all contribute to her exploration into the energy of movement, memory and the connection of all things. Caroline uses the expressive gestural qualities of brush and ink combined with gesso, paint, gilding and piercing in a process that develops over time. As in life, chance and working on the edge of control play their part. Her work reflects an ongoing process of meditation and reflection on the universally powerful yet fugitive nature of memory and the existence of gestures and traces that would otherwise be lost. The importance of something indefinable in language which is common to all, regardless of background or culture. We make marks to prove we exist and the energy this takes exists forever. In addition to making art, Caroline shares her celebration of creativity in a weekly blog, readable in 1 minute and found at http://art.carolinebanks.co.uk/blog/ .
Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, London, Brooklyn, New York, London, London, Bristol
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