ARTIST STATEMENT

Painting is my passion. The mystery and excitement of creating never fails to amaze me. The possibilities are endless. I love to dip my hands in paint and literally put myself into the painting. Layers are everything. The time, the history and the stories that come from building layers all make a better painting.

 

Honestly I could paint on one canvas forever but I force myself to do several at once. It took me years and years of practice and patience to find myself on canvas and I am only now beginning to see me emerge. Capturing a mood, a moment, a place and freezing it on canvas is a high like no other. The feeling is as intoxicating as a falling in love or swimming in warm tropical water, and it keeps me motivated. Old things fascinate me, the stories they could tell. I want to capture that essence with my own hands. Painting with abandon is my mission.

 

MORE ABOUT CARRIE

Carrie is a native Californian, growing up in Los Gatos, CA. She received her Bachelors of Arts from UCSC in 1995 and now resides in Santa Cruz, CA. Florals are Carrie’s mainstay, using her hands to create dancing petals never fails to delight her senses. Her painting style is semi-abstract in nature, dreamy and ethereal in feeling, abstractions hinting at stories untold. The foreground and backgrounds negotiate and dance to an exquisite never ending narrative. A celebration of the advent of spring (Carrie’s birth month), the confidence of femininity and the fountain of rebirth, Carrie’s paintings exhibit a richness and depth as though each piece had been created over the course of many years.