Caren Thompson
New Zealand
"Caren studied painting at the International School of Painting and Sculpting
in
Italy and from there went on to exhibit back in New Zealand where she now lives.
As in many of her paintings, the focus is clearly on the central figure, and
much of the remainder of the picture is very softly defined. "I try to avoid too
much detail," she says. "There are people who do detail beautifully, working on
a
small scale, but that is not something I choose to do". Caren brings a good
sense of colour and design to her work. In particular she doesn't always feel
the need to fill every corner of her oil paintings with colour, a technique that
has it's own charm."
-Taken from a recent exhibition review