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Caroline Boyfield

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About the member

Caroline is a French-British artist born in 1962 in Wales, who lives in St Pol-de-Léon, France.
After graduating in 1989 in the United Kingdom, with a BA and studies in Fine Art at the University of
South Wales, Caroline taught Art and Design between 1990 and 2016 in the UK. Since 2017, she has
returned full time to her art practice. Recent solo exhibitions include : ‘SILLONS’,Galerie Couleurs des Arts,
Morlaix, FR (2022) and ’FLORIBUNDA’,Bazar Saragoz, St Pol-de-Léon, FR (2021). Recent group exhibitions
include the upcoming ‘Quatre Femmes’, La Maison Prébendale in St Pol-de-Léon (Feb. 2023),

‘EXPO D’HIVER’, Galerie Différence, Carantec (2022), ’INDIGO’ with Courant d’Arts, La Tannerie, Plourin-
les-Morlaix, (2020) and ‘OpenUpp’, Uppingham, GB (2019). Her paintings are in the collections of several

private individuals in France and Great Britain. She also has work archived with Art Uk (www.artuk.org)

Education

  • Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Art & Design),
  • De Montford University, Leicester, GB 1989-90
    BA (Hons), 2:1, Open University, UK 1986-89
  • Studies in Fine Art, School of Art & Design, University of South Wales, Cardiff, GB 1981-83
  • Foundation Course in Art & Design, Berks College of Art & Design, Maidenhead, Berkshire, GB 1980-81
Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

  • SILLONS, Galerie Couleurs des Arts, Morlaix, FR 2022
  • FLORIBUNDA, Bazar Saragoz, St Pol-de-Léon, FR 2021
  • RECENT WORKS, Gallery Stamford, Stamford, GB 2020

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • QUATRE FEMMES (Curated by self) La Prébendale, St Pol-de-Léon, FR 2023
  • EXPO D’HIVER, Galerie Difference, Carantec, FR 2022
  • Salon de la Peinture du Léon, Landivisiau, FR 2022
  • Expo Collective, Bazar Saragoz, St Pol-de-Léon, FR 2022
  • NOËL AU BAZAR (Curated by self), 7 créateurs exposent,
  • Bazar Saragoz, St Pol-de-Léon, FR 2021
  • Salon des Arts, Carantec, FR 2021
  • Salon de la Peinture du Léon, Landivisiau, FR 2021
  • INDIGO, Courants D’Art’, La Tannerie, Morlaix, FR 2020
  • Salon de la Peinture du Léon, Landivisiau, FR 2019
  • Salon des Arts de Carantec, Carantec, FR 2019
  • Open Upp Art, expo ephémère, Uppingham, GB 2019
  • Salon des Arts, La Maison Prébendale, St Pol-de-Léon, FR 2018
  • ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION, WVAS, Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, GB 2003-2010
  • RUTLAND OPEN STUDIOS, Rutland, GB 2003-16
    CATMOSE OPEN I-III, Catmose Gallery, Oakham, GB 2003-06
    The Old House Gallery, Market Place, Oakham, GB 1999-09

Caroline
Boyfield

My practice is predominantly focussed on drawing and painting. I am in search of an intuitive language of
interpretation and understanding of the world, external and internal. Work is the result of experiments
exploring the representation of various subjects (landscape, natural phenomena , plant or mineral) using
techniques developed over the years. The expression of an inner landscape, based on these observations, is
developed in a more or less abstract way in the studio through painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and
writing.

Recent work featured in the Quatre Femmes – From Invisibility to Affirmation exhibition in February 2023,
incorporates imagery of archetypes related to dreams and the idea of spiritual transformation.
Recurring images such as seeds, nests, birds, rocks, ladders or the house, express among other things the
inner self and the alchemical transformation of materiality towards an incorporeal reality. Like our
relationships with objects in dreams, the scale of different archetypes wavers between miniature and
gigantic, invisibility and affirmation.

In the works presented, transformation is expressed through verticality which becomes a symbol of being.
The representation of seeds, repeated in several works, is linked to the feminine and the womb.
A predominantly monochromatic palette is used to emphasize the symbols.
Where colour is used, the choice was made according to its symbolic and alchemical meaning. The colour is
intrinsically linked to the choice of material, i.e. graphite / black (materiality),gesso / white (possibility),
sanguine / red (blood / flesh) and gold (light).

Caroline Boyfield
Archetypal Totem 2, 30 x 120 cms
2022
Caroline Boyfield
Sacred geometry - Squares, 42 x 30 cms
2022
Caroline Boyfield
Giant Seed, 65 x 50 cms
2022

Sample-Studios CLG is a non-profit organisation, incorporated as a company, limited by guarantee and not having a share capital.
Sample-Studios Ltd. is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Council, Rethink Ireland, Community Foundation Ireland, Business to Arts, and Cathedral Credit Union.

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