Karole has been exhibiting since graduating in Fine Arts from Hertfordshire University in 2005.

These images are inspired by the resilience of nature – how little flowers emerge on brick walls or pavements whilst we’re looking but not seeing. For me, they are symbols of hope and they lift the spirit signalling to us, in this time of upheaval, that beauty is still around us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I am installation artist exploring the boundaries between abstraction and representation ever striving to reach a visual working relationship between the two.

This body of work is about betrayal and loss and by cutting up my previous work – it all seemed irrelevant and worthless, I was left with small size remnants of paintings so I created ‘books’ and these have now become the artwork.   I have always used dolls house furniture in my work as I am intrigued by how it functions within the context of the work.

I am a fan of the Dadaists, I love their irrationality and admire how they challenged traditional artistic values.  Joseph Cornell too …. I found him particularly useful when teaching vulnerable children  –  making boxes and filling them with their own handmade personal memorabilia gave them a profound sense of ownership.