"Journey In A Dry Riverbed."

My brother lives on a large property in NSW. Capertee. He's a long way away, but on the rare times I get to spend some time in his country, I get lost in wonder in the landscape. He has a summer creek, but on the last visit it was especially dry, in a drought. My nephew took me on good walks, in his country. He pointed out so much about the life around the creek. Trees were felled by wombats, kangaroos munched on the dry grasses, birds and insects filled the air, there was a promise of gold if we decided to look. I looked, but resisted the urge to pan. The summer heat had dried most greenery, except around the small pockets still clinging to water, which glistened defiantly, as did all life on that creek. I had to paint it. I wanted to play into the tension between the beauty, and the threat. Using Oil on board, I scratched in the paint with a palette knife, doing my best to let the raw energy be represented, in impasto. The sun had bleached most of the warm colours away. Greens and reds were hardly to be seen. Since I last visited, there have been rains and fires. This creek still stands.

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Carol has painted since childhood, and has sold both nationally and internationally. "I am fascinated with the complexity of painting, even in it's most simple expression". Inspired by Turner and the Impressionists. Carol continues through her art to explore through landscape, figure and dreams. Carol has had sell out exhibitions from her Private Gallery. The mother of two beautiful children, and co-director of the Gold Coast Gestalt Centre, she states she is incapable of not painting.

"Painting is, my meditation. I go where it takes me. It is like a universe to explore, in the safety of my home. Sometimes my brushes fly, sometimes a palette knife is everything, sometimes the painting is slow and methodical....it is for this reason, my paintings are broad in subject and style."

Her teachers include Australian Artist, John Wilson. Also, David Leffell and Sherrie McGraw, both U.S Master Artists and teachers renowned for their work, have recently acknowledged Carol as their Featured Artist. A rare and privileged acknowledgment.

Carol also animated the multi-award winning, Academy long listed Short film, which screened in over 52 countries and at stand-out film festivals, including Tribecca, Rain Dance, Flickerfest, St Kilda, Manhattan Short. Titled Je Suis Un Crayon, it required 24 drawings per second and at completion went for 5mins and 40 seconds. https://youtu.be/G8YfgtvEwHM and was invited over four consecutive years with Joe D’Arcy to attend Brisbane GOMA for Q&A to describe the process of making Je Suis Un Crayon and art practice.