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carolsmithartist

Main Menu

  • Artist’s Statement
  • Bio
  • Portfolio
    • Cancer vs the Universe – with Richard Hopkins – 2025
      • What are the Chances
      • Timepieces
    • MLitt Degree show, Glasgow School of Art, 2017
    • Residency @ DRAWInternational 2016
    • Prints
      • Textures
      • Micro-Cosmic
      • Arrays & Constructions
      • Depth
    • Drawings
      • Meditations
      • Life Drawing
    • Paintings
      • Quantum Void
      • Lost Boundaries
  • Contact
Perch and Flight. (Photo: Mark Lomas)

I make art that explores how things come into being — the invisible forces, patterns, and probabilities that shape our lives and our universe.

My work moves across media — drawing, print, cyanotype, sculpture, installation — but what unites it is a fascination with emergence.

I am drawn to processes where chance, time, and material behaviour play an active role. A line might wander, pigments may spread in unpredictable ways, or moonlight might take hours to etch its presence on a page. In each case, I am not seeking to impose control but to collaborate with what is unfolding.

I separate research from making: first, I immerse myself in reading and writing to clarify my ideas; then I put the books aside and allow the studio to be a place of feeling and discovery. This balance between thinking and letting go is essential to my practice.

Science, philosophy, and Zen have shaped the way I see the world, but you don’t need to know any of that to encounter the work. What matters to me is that each piece offers a moment to pause — to breathe, to reflect, to sense something larger than ourselves.

Ultimately, my art is an invitation: to wonder at how life emerges, to notice the patterns that surround us, and to remember that we are part of something infinite.

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