Caroline Watson
Profile/CV
Caroline Watson was born in Middlesex, England in 1966 and graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in Fine Art in 1997. Painting from imagination her work is largely concerned with human relations and states of being. Her recent paintings use the world of the puppet as a microcosm of our own, the colourful characters expressing the best and worst of our natures. Caroline says of her work:
“Like weird children, my work emerges from a wellspring of thoughts, some of which I have carried with me since childhood. As with dreams, these thoughts originate from the everyday, are reordered and emerge through the process of imagination. The work is made from my experiences and coloured by an interest in old things, folklore, and all that is human.
Although figurative at present, the work is becoming more abstracted in an attempt to reign in and condense the myriad of images I experience imaginatively, confining them to canvas and extracting and displaying their essence
Currently, Caroline is embarking on a series of 3 dimensional work including booths and simple puppets, using them as a springboard to create new paintings and exploring the aspects of personal space so prevalent in her dreams. She has recently shown paintings made especially for the group exhibition “Comfortably Strange” at View Art Gallery in Bristol
Website www.carolinewatson.co.uk
