Author: Carla

Unreachable

In the Distance Yet Unreachable, Acrylic and gesso on Cotton Canvas, 300mm x 220mm.

The unreachable series is based upon the text below

Unreachable, the distance you are
Seems so far away but so near
Time is sometimes not the barrier
Neither distance
Deeds done, advantage taken
Wounds slash deep

Unreachable the distance you are
So near, your light obscured
Your face blank, smiles unreal
Eyes show nothing
When will you mean words
When will it heal?

Unreachable the distance you are
Closer than a tender touch
Resistant and closed hard fast
Pride projects a barrier
Emotions never flow
How will we repair?

Morals

Graphic pen on board with acrylic paint.
A series of modern morals looking how we view the World and is it how we really think it is?
148 x 105mm

Be Yourself 2 showed in Moss Gallery, Norway

New Morals drawings showed at a show of new work at the Hive Gallery, Shrewsbury, UK, see a review and listen to audio interview here

A further set of Morals drawings showed in Moscow with much interest.

Theatre Severn

When a new theatre was built in Shrewsbury, Shropshire – my home town, this was a major development for a Midlands market town – especially as the theatre looks out of the ordinary. To me it felt sterile and an uncreative space, I felt it needed adoption. So for several weeks I spent time there drawing and observing and came away having learned to love the new building and appreciating its curves and angles of which there are many. I hope you will visit and love it too.

Monet Mural Project

These images are from a mural project which I led in Sundorne infant school, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Over two weeks, I facilitated six large murals which were painted by all of the children throughout the school.

The smaller paintings are painted by myself and used during talks with pupils who were aged between 4 and 6, to demonstrate working as Claude Monet did, with only three colours: crimson, blue and lemon yellow with white. The murals are painted in Dulux Weathershield paint and should last up to 15 years.

This fantastic project demonstrated collaborative working and was commended by the UK Department of Education, Art in Mental Health Project.