However, I do venture painting after digital photography and explore the frustration of its artificial format in my recent portraits. As a plein air painter, I favor immediate contact with my subject. I am inspired to paint the intimacy of my surroundings and the attraction that absorbing places, stirring people and tantalizing objects exercise on me. Exploring the expressive power and subtle flavors of soft and vibrant colors enables me to get at the heart of what I see. More than the object of my attention, it is the process of seeing itself, the experience of sight that I wish to lay out on the canvas. My work attempts to recreate perceptual impressions and visual effects by developing a coherent, personal language.

Adopting high exposure, saturated colors and distorted angles, her recent portraits express the ambiguity of self-presentation in the digital age.įigurative painting is an emotional and imaginative journey, not just an exercise in copying. Influenced by the French impressionists and inspired by contemporary culture, the world she depicts is soft and colorful.Ĭarole’s more recent work explores contemporary visual culture and the effects of social media, iphone photography and digital culture on representation. While studying art privately in Paris, NYC, San Francisco and Boston, she was naturally drawn to painting outdoors and from life, immersed in the heart of her subjects. She holds degrees in Philosophy from La Sorbonne (B.A.) and History of Art (M.A.) from the Courtauld Institute. She took part in the TV Show Portrait Artist of the Year 2020 on Sky TV. She has been exhibited in galleries in the U.S., Paris and London including the Mall Galleries and her work is represented in dozens of private collections and publications. TYPE: Original Oil Painting by Carole NatafĬarole Nataf is an experienced London-based artist who was born in France. As the sun sets, the fiery orange tones of the sky reflect onto the sand and purple waters of this magic beach.

This is an original oil painting on panelled canvas of Crane’s beach in Ipswich Massachusetts.

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