About My art

Carolyne studied stained glass at Chelsea School of Art and Design in 1981-84. She later returned to University of Westminster to study for a BA (Hons) in Graphic Information Design. Her portrait and landscape painting have evolved over the years, whilst she has pursued a career as a web and graphic designer.

She paints in most media, but prefers oils as it allows more freedom to return to the subject at a later date. Portraits take 2 or 3 sittings backed up with numerous photographs. Carolyne likes to work from her own photographs and takes great care to set the sitters up with complementary backgrounds which reflect the personality of the sitter to great effect.

Other portraits which have proved popular with clients are the ‘step’ profile portraits, which depict members of family in profile and drawn in pastel pencil. These images project a different style to the paintings and are more subtle in depicting family groupings.

Most recently, Carolyne enjoys painting the Tuscan and Southern France landscapes. She has captured some of the beauty and colours of the lush countryside in recent paintings and has branched out into incorporating the Italian landscape with some of her sitters.