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Carole’s Journey
My Artist’s Journey
For now, until my ‘Artist Career’ really takes off, I’ll share my ‘Artist’s Journey’ through what some say are soul-inspired doodles. The unpredictability of my first ‘crazee doodle’ with its unplanned shapes and the interconnection of every motif which already then seemed essential, must have stemmed from my personal conviction that we, humans, are interconnected to all that is on planet Earth and All is connected back to us.1969 - Guatemala City
16 Year old me: my maiden voyage into the smelly/messy World of Oils and Turpentine and art for ‘Fun sake’.
1973 - Austin, Texas
First play with pastels - imagining how I might look at … 90 years of age. OK, Yes, it was fun, but one attempt is enough. OK... done with pastels! Done with art!
1993 - Paris, France
Deeper dive into the smelly World of Oils and Turpentine resumed. In hindsight, it is in these paintings that is rooted the current intertwined/interconnected trademark of my current ‘crazee doodles’. And, once again…I’m done with art!
1997 - Brisbane, Australia
Another return to art for ‘Fun sake’ with another oil doodle that, for reasons best known to me, I called ‘Units’.
2021 - Brisbane, Australia
And, finally, at the age of 68, spending many afternoons on my mother’s balcony to keep her company and encouraging her, despite encroaching Alzheimer’s, to get out-of-her-head by colouring, my own pencils came to life.
My first doodle, the vision board displayed in My Process, drawn in 2021, was inspired by my father’s own whimsical ‘doodles’.
He is now 92 years old. While he has always lived in the South of France, I have lived there only intermittently, before finally settling in Australia 30 years ago.
We sometimes correspond by phone but his
preferred means is via written letter and doodle-art.
The doodles my father still draws on stiff 11” X 20’
Bristol paper have been his way of sharing with me
moments of his day-to-day, his current thoughts on
world events and the commemoration of festive
moments that linked us to one another.
It is on the back of these Bristols that he write his
letters.
This doodle is about the current housing crisis and
the spiking rate of unemployment in France.
This doodle is about my 92-year-old father doing his
best to accept the limitations of ageing [symbolised
by the slow-moving snails at his feet] while the locals
are having fun at the beach to which he walks every
day.
This one is about my acquisition of a campervan and
the planned happy moments by the sea.
A few weeks after the completion of my vision board, my current style emerged through Mon Lion. I discovered the ‘secret potential’ of basic
colouring pencils!
2024 - Brisbane, Australia
Yemanja Brazilian sea goddessCarole’s Journey
My Artist’s Journey
For now, until my ‘Artist Career’ really takes off, I’ll share my ‘Artist’s Journey’ through what some say are soul-inspired doodles. The unpredictability of my first ‘crazee doodle’ with its unplanned shapes and the interconnection of every motif which already then seemed essential, must have stemmed from my personal conviction that we, humans, are interconnected to all that is on planet Earth and All is connected back to us.1969 - Guatemala City
16 Year old me: my maiden voyage into the smelly/messy World of Oils and Turpentine and art for ‘Fun sake’.
1973 - Austin, Texas
First play with pastels - imagining how I might look at … 90 years of age. OK, Yes, it was fun, but one attempt is enough. OK... done with pastels! Done with art!
1993 - Paris, France
Deeper dive into the smelly World of Oils and Turpentine resumed. In hindsight, it is in these paintings that is rooted the current intertwined/interconnected trademark of my current ‘crazee doodles’. And, once again…I’m done with art!
1997 - Brisbane, Australia
Another return to art for ‘Fun sake’ with another oil doodle that, for reasons best known to me, I called ‘Units’.
2021 - Brisbane, Australia
And, finally, at the age of 68, spending many afternoons on my mother’s balcony to keep her company and encouraging her, despite encroaching Alzheimer’s, to get out-of-her-head by colouring, my own pencils came to life.
My first doodle, the vision board displayed in My Process, drawn
in 2021, was inspired by my father’s own whimsical ‘doodles’.
He is now 92 years old. While he has always lived in the South of
France, I have lived there only intermittently, before finally
settling in Australia 30 years ago.
We sometimes correspond by phone but his preferred means is
via written letter and doodle-art.
The doodles my father still draws on stiff 11” X 20’ Bristol paper
have been his way of sharing with me moments of his day-to-
day, his current thoughts on world events and the
commemoration of festive moments that linked us to one
another.
It is on the back of these Bristols that he write his letters.
This doodle is about the current housing crisis and the spiking
rate of unemployment in France.
This doodle is about my 92-year-old father doing his best to
accept the limitations of ageing [symbolised by the slow-
moving snails at his feet] while the locals are having fun at the
beach to which he walks every day.
This one is about my acquisition of a campervan and the
planned happy moments by the sea.
A few weeks after the completion of my vision board, my
current style emerged through Mon Lion. I discovered the
‘secret potential’ of basic colouring pencils!
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