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phase”, she explains. “I know it sounds strange, but it is practical and it works for me.” For further processing, enlarging, or recreating in other materials, she works in a more conventional studio.


Most of Carole’s work is abstracted, figurative, or organic forms that in some way evoke the figure. “The curves and volume of the female form, even if not absolutely recognizable as such, offer the best way for me, as a woman, to express emotion. There is a familiarity, a commonality that doesn’t require explanation.”


Except for the issue of missing body parts and heads; when asked about that, Carole laughs, “I get that a lot. Actually, I have no explanation. I could tell you that it is a statement of loss or the commemoration of a journey or transformational process… casualties, collateral damage, survival… and that may be. But really, there is never an intentional leaving out. My maquettes begin as quick sketches in clay and I am not thinking at that point. I have already flooded my mind for a particular project and I then pick up clay to see what happens. It is


Carole Turner, Dream cloud


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