About the Artist
Carol grew up in Zambia and moved to London and later New York. She was a student at The Art Students League in New York for 2 years where she did figurative drawing and lithography. She also studied interior design at Parsons School of Design.
After 5 years in New York she returned to London where she worked in Old Master Paintings in Piccadilly for two years and then started her own company in decorative painting and Interior design.
In 1998 she moved back to Zambia where she was able to paint full time, for 4 years she lived in the bush, in Luangwa Valley, which is where her inspiration for wild life comes from.
Later on Carol became interested in the printing process and studied at Artichoke studios in London, she also spent time at Heatherley’s Art College in Chelsea.
“I experiment with many different techniques, from oil or acrylic on canvas, to etchings and monoprints, I have a beautiful etching press I had made out of old tractor bits and it works perfectly. I love working in mixed media using collage and stencils to loosen myself up.
Lately, I have been working with resin on aluminum. When resin is poured it’s like alchemy, working with a heat gun and never sure how it’s going to turn out, it never fails to fascinate me as beautiful effects work their way through.”
Carol has been painting for 23 years and has been involved in 25 exhibitions to date. Her paintings are now all over the world and are in various private Collections.
In 2016 she enrolled SACAP and did a three-year counselling and communications diploma. She has worked in Lusaka in this field for the last 2.5 years and balances her painting and counselling work.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Painting, to me, is a metaphor for life. We start with a white, blank canvas and slowly we make our marks, there are all kinds of detours, mistakes, successes, wipe outs and some short cuts. I have learnt that when it all goes horribly wrong that is when we determinedly persevere with brows knitted and heart racing, to push through the problem and somehow, something magic seems to take place, almost outside of our control a sort of metamorphoses.
2000 - Dorp Street Gallery, Cape Town
2003 - Musikili School, Lusaka
2003 - Diane Bouchard Gallery Arcades Lusaka
2004 - Musikili School, Lusaka
2005 - Ababa House, Lusaka
Musikilli School, Lusaka
2007 - Musikilli School, Lusaka
2008 - Solo Exhibition Alliance Francaise Lusaka
Musikilli School, Lusaka
2009 - Solo Exhibition Alliance Francaise Lusaka
2010 - Joint Printmaking Exhibition at Alliance Francaise Lusaka
Musikilli School, Lusaka
Ababa House Miniature Christmas Exhibition
Shortlisted for David Shepherd Wildlife Exhibition Lusaka
2011 - Etching Exhibition Alliance Francaise Lusaka
2012 - Solo Exhibition Alliance Francaise Lusaka
2014 - Joint Exhibition at Chelsea Arts Club, London"Things that Breath”
"Split Dimension" Solo Exhibition 37 M Middleway, Lusaka
2015-2019 Studied psychology at SACAP while taking commissions
2017 - Lower Zambezi Conservation Joint Exhibition
2018 - 11 - 14th October at 37M Middleway, Lusaka
2019 - Group exhibition at African Inspirations Lusaka
2020 - “A Joint Exhibition” Latitude
2021 - “A Joint Exhibition” Latitude 15 with Emily Thornton and Francois d’Elbee
2022 - A group Exhibition “Art a la Nature” at Art in the Yard, Franshoek, Cape Town South Africa