Carolyn’s paintings are a dialogue between camera, canvas, memories, journeys and associations.

The process so far has been focused on train journeys, looking out of the train window and taking endless photographs which are then brought back to the studio.

2019 was the start of ‘The Unchanging Traveller’ series of paintings. Carolyn was the passenger with a view through a train window. The fascination became the contrast of the manmade in the natural landscape. The train often travelling at speed, allowed for a momentary glance to record images on an IPhone.

“The panels are prepared with a number of layers of a white primer. Then I work in a thin layer of colour usually an orangery apricot as if I am staining the surface. I do this as a reminder to me that the moment (the photograph) has passed, it’s my nod to memory but the memory can now become a new event now that it is transformed through paint and the paint I use is oil paint. This series of 18 painted tiles are from 2019-21.

Through my painting process changes take place especially emphasis, detail, colour. I allow things to happen and it’s quite impossible and never a good idea for me to dictate the outcome.”

Born Manchester 1951, living in Birmingham

MA from City & Guilds School of Art, London.

2021 Longlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021