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Artist Statement for Karyn Coldwell
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KARYN COLDWELL
Born 1961 London
1982 Watford College of Art and Design
1983-4 Leeds BA Hons Fine Art
1984-7 Portsmouth BA Hons Fine Art
1987– present Practicing artist/illustrator
1995-6 Tutor at Le Petit Champliere Painting Courses Haut Vienne
1997-present Tutor at L’Age Baston Painting Courses Charente
2003 Tutor at Le Tileuil Painting Courses Charente
2003-4 Tutor on organised Painting Picnics, Painting en Plein Air in rural France
Paintings currently in private collections in Europe and USA.
Commissions:
Book illustrations, mural paintings, portraits.
Undertaking PhD Drawing and Cognition at Camberwell College Of Arts
SERIES
The current series of paintings are developing from my interest in natural science, combining philosophical themes and scientific theory.
The paintings are abstract essentially, but have traces of real objects suggested within them, often in mesh or net, as if tied or trapped underneath some imperceptible surface.
Seemingly complex in surface colour and texture, the paintings, evolve in the process of painting in much the same way as described in the above text. The analogy between this concept of complexity/simplicity is the same as the act of painting.
Catalogue Extract
Instances of natural orderly structures are easy to find. For example the symmetry of a spiders web or a honeycomb show practical orderliness for survivals sake. It is, however the statistical selection of rare events that nature seems to undertake, for order, contrary to common belief is a highly unlikely occurrence.
My paintings reflect the concept of improbable order in nature, and through colour and texture explore some of these scientific and philosophical interpretations in an abstract or figurative form. The occasional allusion to ordered objects or forms, patterns and rhythms, suggests random organization amongst complexity and amorphousness.
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