Carole Turner, Delirium 1 & 2; Credit: Courtney Frisse
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Karen Ryer
dreams and inability to take action, and they melted away in, of all places, a sterile passport office. For some reason I didn’t hesitate to make my ‘official’ declaration – to the world, literally”. After not having painted in years, she created 47 paintings from that trip alone.
It is no coincidence that travel would play a part in her reinvention. And her passport continues to be well used. Always having been artistically inspired by her travels, she has now come full circle and travels for her art. She spends many months a year in other countries creating monumental sculptures in stone and bronze and steel.
Her sculptures may end up all over the world, but they begin in her bathtub. “Almost all of my maquettes are made in what I call my
‘Aqua Studio’.” I use plasticine clay and have a very large, very deep tub. It is the perfect environment for me. I tend to invite chaos in the outside world and this is my decompression – my version of silence. And it is very effective in quite literally washing away all of the outside stimuli and distilling ideas to their essence. I am definitely a Cancerian water girl. I can spend hours there. Not to mention the steam being great for the plasticine.”
In a big bathroom, painted a particular shade of blue, the working area of the ‘Aqua Studio’ is really a huge soaking tub. Submerged in it, she works on new ideas, as well as altering or completing any of the perhaps twenty plasticine clay maquettes on the tiles that surround the tub. Nearby are a sound system, TV, phone, as well as her small dogs. “It’s only for the idea
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