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I'm Caroline Kappers
Caroline Kappers works with the mercurial qualities of red wine as a watercolour combined with imported archival wine inks and acrylic-coloured ink to explore figurative portraits with a vibrant sense of colour and design.
Inspired by life captured through the lens of a camera, the vibrancy of colour, and play of light on subjects in nature are all elements that form the inspiration behind Caroline’s Artworks. Her Art is primarily focused on red wine-painted portraits on paper with explosions of bright, cheerful colour and expressive lines.
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Artist Statement
Only create what you love.
I paint because I want to express my ideas by narrating a story using elements that speak to me. Red wine symbolises many elements that are sometimes not translated into other mediums. It was never my intention to use it at the outset but it became a tool that highlighted my ability to give it a voice of its own. It holds the subtlety of translucent washes creating depth and does not need anything else to speak on its behalf because it is strong enough to speak for itself.
Using the tannins found in wines to create a palette emanating from nature from the bark of ancient oak trees and the purple hues of grape skins found in wine painted on paper resonates with life and speaks to its unpredictability.
My experimental use of colour often combining acrylic inks in my wine art as well as layering oil paint over the wine as a synthesist style is inspired by Gauguin but in no way attempts to refer to his ideas on religion.
I attempt to tell a story with my Art through my own lived experience which speaks to the female and where we find ourselves in the world – painting African women adorned with traditional woven textiles as embellishment of their traditional cultural heritage speaks to my own individuality and design background and the need to find symmetry and repetition in my surroundings. Through exploring through my Art I have attempted to comment on what it means to be a woman in Africa.
Through my art-making process, I feel I can give women a voice. We limit women by trying to figure out what kind of woman she is and what she is capable of. Instead, I look at what kind of experiences a woman has been through and how that allows her to see the world. Within each piece I create, there is a calling to explore and understand the female experience.
