Patricia Carroll                                                       

As an abstract expressionist painter, relying on her feelings and emotions, Patricia plays with paint, making marks and then responding to those marks through a combination of spontaneous and thoughtful conversations with the work. These conversations, affected by personal and archetypal experiences, occur consciously and subconsciously. There is no plan. Meaning and themes materialize simply through the impact of her environment on her while she paints. A successful piece emerges from this happy struggle where the eye dances throughout, alighting here and there in sheer pleasure.

Nature is her muse. Patricia’s awe with nature began in Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula and continues to this day in beautiful British Columbia. She delights in colour, texture and rhythm where a limited palette of mainly transparent acrylic paints, along with spontaneously-created stamps and mark-making tools, enable her to react with and respond to her world.

Her studies at the Ontario College of Art; her teaching of art in the Toronto District School Board; her practice in intensive workshops with many renowned painters (Betsy Dillard Stroud, Gerald Brommer, Pat Dews, Gwen Fox, Robert Burridge); her personal study of John Dewey (painter/philosopher); and her unending practice all have enhanced her artistic journey. She is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) and an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA).

website: patriciacarroll.ca       email: patriciacarroll@shaw.ca