Wednesday 23 July 2008
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Carolyne Kardia
Painting & Sculpture installation
“Beyond the Shadow”
Paintings and sculptural installations aim to celebrate pigment and the existence of temporal forms in space. Sculpture is cast in plaster on site responding to the specifics of the architectural space. Forms slowly evolve, building complex constructions pushing the material to its limits. Paintings in differing media explore colour, its responses to various applications ultimately affirming its implicit resounding characteristics. Ink drawings trace the ability of line to entrap space within two-dimensions. Developing the relationship between the two and three-dimensional creates a dialogue across their boundaries aiming to echo form with colour and colour with form.
Workshops are available in painting and sculpture for children and adults including affiliated OCA courses.
Fir Tree Farm, Bridport Road, Broadwindsor, Dorset, DT8 3LA.
Telephone: 01308 868807
Website: www.carolynekardia.co.uk
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Additional Information
“Carolyne Kardia’s paintings often seem to present us with an explosion. It is as if big solid chunks of colour have been thrown up high in the air, burst open and then, in slow motion, regrouping on their way down, attached themselves to one another, sought out, avoided, mingled – building bridges, clashing and hemming in.
But there was no explosion. There was an artist at work with her vast knowledge and experience of and with colour and form and with her great capacity of perception and action. It seems to me as if we are looking at life itself, its own movements, its layers of conflicting forces and directions. The artist has merely created a new space for it, in which she, without denying the pain and the loss involved, brought broken and split elements together again into renewed dance.
Looking at these pictures, taking them in and bringing them to life with our own being, gives us a resting point at last, a delicious stillness in the balance of that, which is.”
Uta Ruge Berlin 2007
