Carol Paquet
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Stacked
oil on panel, 20 x 20 inches
Overlife
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 58 inches, $3200
The Secrets Water Holds – Part 1
oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, $2150
The Secrets Water Holds – Part 2
oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, $2150
Muse for Urban Junction
oil on canvas, 36 x 24, $2400
Muse for History of Roots
oil on canvas, 40 x 24, $2650
Suburban Junction 4
pigment ink print, 20 x 20 inches, $1250
Fractura
pigment ink print, 20 x 20 inches, $1250
Suburban junction 1
pigment ink print, 20 x 20 inches, $1250
Knitted in Pink
oil on canvas , 30 x 24 inches, $2150
Through the Leaves
oil on canvas , 36 x 36 inches, $2500
Tapestry
oil on canvas , 40 x 40 inches, $2650
About the artist...
Carol Paquet is a South African/American visual artist working across multiple media, predominantly painting and abstract photography. After attending the College of Art in Johannesburg, she worked in the advertising industry as an Art Director for the following 20 years.
She continued her education in the Fine Arts through privately sponsored programs and while living in Johannesburg, studied etching with William Kentridge.
Her work is predominently based on the natural world and addresses the ephemeral nature of time and place. Paquet distills imagery from her immediate surroundings, then employs chance and controlled acts of paint pouring with translucent layering to shift perspective and context. Oftentimes she shifts the orientation of an image to further loosen the subject from reality.
Born in N. Rhodesia (now Zambia) and having grown up in South Africa, lived in Britain, Germany and Canada and California, impermanence is a theme both in her life and in her work. Significant influences include William Kentridge, Gerhart Richter and Wolfgang Tillmans.