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Carol Haigh lives on Salt Spring Island where she has resided since 1955 when her family immigrated to Canada from England. At the age of sixteen, Carol left Salt Spring with her parents and three of her four sisters on a 5 year sailing voyage through the Pacific Islands to New Zealand and Australia, returning here to live. Carol’s interest in sailing and the ocean remains strong and her bond with the sea is vital to her work. She finds inspiration in the marine environment around the islands of her home waters and in the constantly shifting mood and colours of the sea and sky. Carol’s paintings communicate her vision of the fragile nature and beauty of our surrounding environment. Wherever she travels, the ocean is her muse and her love for the sea is apparent in her paintings. Whether sailing around the islands of the inside waters or walking the west coast beaches, Carol is absorbing the mood and spirit of the sea and gathering ideas for future paintings. Carol is a self-taught realist painter. Throughout her twenty-five year artistic career, Carol has worked in several different media, though she now concentrates on painting in acrylic. Her paintings capture a clarity of light and colour that is achieved by building up multiple layers of thin acrylic washes. Her images are finely detailed and reflect an intuitive knowledge of the sea. Her paintings, silkscreen prints can be found in private collections New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, Japan and North America.
Please contact the gallery for more information and images.
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Copyright 2011 Ian Tan. |
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