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Caroline Atkinson -
Painter
"Shape, light, colour, combination of colours or
some quirky little detail catches my eye. Sometimes
it's a moment when all these things come together
and fit perfectly into a happy composition. I am a
hunter/gatherer, craving knowledge, pleasure and
understanding. Painting, for me, is like that -
foraging, making sense of the world. I am drawn to
beauty-but what defines beauty? It can be in
composition, in patterns, but most importantly in
the play of light. It's not the grass, cliffs or
beaches that I find beautiful so much as the light
acting upon those things. I find it wonderful that
every blade, every stone has its own 5 minutes of
glory in the limelight - its moment of beauty.
When I'm observing or
painting I feel I'm a child again with a sense of
wonder at the littlest of details - sand ripples,
cloud shadows, flocks of birds in full flight. What
I understand now is that pleasure is not just in
what I see but in what looking for it does to me". |
