Carolyn Williamson is a batik and textile
artist based in Bristol. She has a passion for colour that is
amply indulged in her silk batik paintings. Flowers, cats and
still-lifes are her subjects, executed using a brush rozome-style.
She also uses metal stamps, paper stencils, darning needles,
and a variety of other objects to produce patterns both with
the wax and in the wax. Drips, flicks and splats have their place,
too. She often uses collage for her initial inspiration, allowing
her to layer pattern upon pattern from the start.
Carolyn can’t remember a time when she didn’t
paint, draw, or make things out of fabric. Her mother was a keen
dressmaker who encouraged Carolyn to print, dye and embroider
her own idiosyncratic fabrics. Art college was a natural choice
after leaving school, and Carolyn worked for many years as an
interior designer and exhibition designer for a well-known furniture
company.
Her interest in batik stems from a workshop she
attended some ten years ago when she knew she had discovered
something magical the moment dye flowed over and round the melted
wax. Her work is constantly evolving and, she hopes, improving
as new techniques and ideas are incorporated and she strives
to create pictures that both lift the spirit and please the eye. |
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Duck
Eggs
Gold Orchids
Spotted Cat and Fan
White Roses
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