Artist profile
Carol
Barroso
Carol Barroso is a contemporary painter who was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is based in NSW, Australia.
From the early age of eighteen she travelled the world and has lived in a number of different places including New York, London, India and Sydney. Now Carol is based in the South Coast of NSW, Australia.
Carol has been an exhibiting artist for over 15 years and graduated with Masters of Fine Arts from COFA, UNSW in 2016. With a consistent evolving knowledge of Mindfulness that comes from Meditation, Carol naturally incorporates therapy into her art practice and graduated with a Masters of Art Therapy from Western Sydney University in 2022.
Her work is a highly expressive impressions of the landscape and of her inner self. Her fertile spiritual life serves her art practice well in the sense of sharpening and deepening her innate sensitivity.
Carol believes that her practice has developed into a poetic exercise of spontaneity, where the act of painting develops as it would a poem. She reads poetry extensively and is largely influences by it, as much as she is by nature and her natural environment .
Career Highlights
- 2016 Masters of Fine Arts by Research at COFA UNSW
- 2021 Exhibited at Parliament House of NSW
- 2022 Korea-Australia Arts Foundation (KAAF) Art Prize finalist
Artist Interview
What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?
I work with oil paints and linseed oil painting medium. I love the texture of oil paints and its malleability, combined with the linseed oil, it produces a simple though very effective medium.
How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?
It develops gradually from an idea, then it evolves to a carefully layered composition through layers of painting, then slowly a new piece reveals itself.
Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?
I work and I'm mostly inspired by the outdoors. I also have a small space at my own home in which I paint.
