Carrie_Jardine

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Venus, 2007
47 x 17
Watercolor on Arches paper mounted on Canvas

Gaia, 2008

43” x 12”

watercolor and ink on arches paper mounted on canvas

Carrie Jardine

Hot Day, 2008, 12” x 43”, watercolor and ink on paper, on canvas sold

Artist Statement

I am a self-taught artist and have been drawing for as long as I can remember. My influences range from 20th century Art Nouveau to 1970's Playboy magazines. Even so, I’m not sure influences matter. Music has also played an important role in my life. It surrounds me while I paint and therefore exists within each line of my work.

My art is an exploration of the female form. The sophisticated sexiness of soft, natural bodies moving freely and elegantly, the experience of feeling loved, unbounded, confident. It’s a story that has no beginning and no end, much like the blurred line between human form and nature. The world in which my characters live is an organic, stylized web of trees and vines weaving in and amongst one another. The story of my beauties plays out here. They’re alone and they’re together. Like the rest of us, each painting is only a tiny piece of this infinite world.

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Artist Bio

E D U C A T I O N

Self-taught

S E L E C T    S H O W S

April 2008 - Lawrence Asher Gallery , Los Angeles, CA.

May 2008 - Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, CA. “The Art of Vision”

P A S T    S H O W S

2007 – Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, CA. “The Art of Harmony”

2006 – Judith Kaufman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. “Feminine Mystique”

2003 – Zeke’s Gallery, Montreal, Canada. “Stay Gold”

2002 – Gallery Baliz, Montreal, Canada.

P U B L I C A T I O N S    &   O T H E R S

2007 – Album/CD artwork for Branvan 3000’s “Rose”.

2003 – Vie De Arts (Canadian Art Magazine), Autumn Issue.

2001 – CD artwork for Branvan 3000’s “Discosis”, Grand Royal Label.

Helena, 17" x 47", watercolor on Arches paper mounted on Canvas