Coming Along On A New Portrait...

Carolin Prinn, Portrait of Laura Walker, graphite on arches aquarelle, 440 x 570 mm.

I have continued my exploration of portraiture as part of my body of work. It is a way to reach the core individual, of people I have met from around the world and after all, my experience of any place is so dependent on the people. I think my love of this kind of work resulted from my residence in France, where I focused on a series creating 'A Sense of Place', and did this through fleeting portraits of people I met as I travelled. Part documentation, part exploration into the human psyche. Although I do some work from a distance, I always appreciate interaction with the sitter of some sort, interested in hearing about their experience and transferring that through my own vision.

Portrait of My Father

Portrait of My Father (Prof. Ronald Prinn, Dir. Center for Global Change Science, M.I.T.), oil on Belgian linen, 30" x 42"

Finished this piece in November. I have painted my father as a thank you for the support and inspiration he has given me to pursue my passion, a career in art, and also out of the great respect I have for his own work. His research has contributed to and created headway in addressing climate change, a pressing issue of our time. On the left, I have depicted the two graphs he uses to introduce his research to politicians and policy makers around the globe, showing the outcomes of action vs. non-action.

Niljora

Niljora, of 'The Stories of Niljora' ©, digital

My latest conception of the mysterious heroine of my mythos, The Stories of Niljora ©. Very excited to have recently published some excerpts from my story, with accompanying art, that has driven so much of the content of my work. While the story is much a world written out, and currently an index to my art, I look forward to bringing it out further in a number of forms. The book is currently available on my website at www.carolinprinn.com.

'From madness and nothingness came the creature Niljora'... 

Progress On A New Portrait

Work in progress, Portrait of My Father (Prof. Ronald Prinn, Dir. Center for Global Change Science, M.I.T.), oil on linen.

I have started a new oil portrait. Here I am showing the underpainting, followed by the grisaille layers, and lastly the first layers of colour, keeping with a limited, earthy palette focused on the warm vs. the cool.

My New Hardcover Book Now Available

Presenting my new hardcover publication, released this September. The books features a selection of my works created between 2013-2015, included in my Worlds survey show in Wellington. There are 18 full page images set alongside excerpts from my mythos, The Stories of Niljora.

'At play in an ornate, fantastical world that mirrors and subverts our own, we enter a land where myth, classical tale and the story of history entwines with the modern world...'

To purchase copies, please visit my online shop. I am also selling on etsy. 

Weaving Through a Timeless Shifting Story - Exclusive Edition Prints

Weaving Through a Timeless Shifting Story is now available in an exclusive edition of prints. Hand-signed and numbered, they are printed on archival quality 310 gsm. Hahnemuhle german etching paper with HP Vivera pigment inks. The prints are available through my website www.carolinprinn.com as well as my etsy shop.

Exhibition opening of WORLDS by Carolin Prinn & Lance Ravenswood

I will be exhibiting new paintings and a survey of my work alongside graphic designer & visual artist Lance Ravenswood in Wellington next week. The show surveys and investigates the fantastical and symbolic narratives of our visual worlds. Limited edition prints and copies of our art books will also be available.

We welcome you to join us for the opening, 16 September, 5:30 - 7:30pm, if you are situated in Wellington.

DELUXE, 10 Kent Terrace, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011 / Hours: Mon - Fri 7 – 5pm, Sat/Sun 8 – 5pm

Weaving Through a Timeless Shifting Story

Carolin Prinn, Weaving Through a Timeless Shifting Story, acrylic on cotton rag, 36 x 54 cm.

This series of works have continued alongside my oil paintings and pen & inks.  
This piece can be previewed alongside select others at
2 Eva Street - March 28 - April 28 - Wellington

Painting Process - The Underpainting

Carolin Prinn, Oil Painting Series, Stage 2: Grisaille Underpainting, oil on belgian linen

Carolin Prinn, Oil Painting Series, Stage 1: Underpainting, oil on belgian linen

I am excited to be making way on my large scale series of oil works. The themes and ideas are something I have been planning for quite some time. Here is the underpainting, coming along, for one of the works. 

Portrait of Sophi Reinholt - Graphite on Arches Watercolour Paper

Carolin Prinn, Portrait of Sophi Karin Reinholt, pencil on arches watercolour paper, 315 x 340 mm.

My finished pencil portrait of Sophi Reinholt. Sophi currently works on The Renegade Peach Project  and ZHIZHY and is a talented photographer and videographer.

Entrance To The Secret Worlds: A Collection of Works in Pen & Ink

Carolin Prinn, All But What We Wished, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 245mm x 340mm

Carolin Prinn, That River Has Flowed With The Flickered Fish of Nostalgia, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 245mm x 310mm

Carolin Prinn, We All Must Move On For The Swing At The End of The World, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 256mm x 340mm

Carolin Prinn, The Ladder We Rushed But In Our Haste Was Beauty Lost?, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 255mm x 340mm

Carolin Prinn, Exiting The Cave, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 245mm x 342mm

Carolin Prinn, We Wish, Exists, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 305 x 248mm

Carolin Prinn, The Council, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 304mm x 255mm

Carolin Prinn, Not So Simple, pen and ink on canson c à grain paper, 253 x 245mm

These works are an exploration of philosophical theory and their relevance and perhaps importance in today's modern world. There is a humanistic element to them and a deep interest in the various constructs of society and human behavior. Imbued with symbolic notations, allegorical characters and cascading movement, I hope to inspire analysis on these subjects while also instilling a sense of beauty and fantasy.

For inquiries about available original works and prices, please email me @ carolinprinn@gmail.com

Limited Edition Prints of the works (Ed. of 30) are available through my website.

ADAM Portraiture Awards Touring Exhibition - The Percy Thomson Gallery

Photograph courtesy of  The Percy Thomson Gallery

My work (right) currently hung at The Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford

29 Aug - 30 September

Entrance To The Secret Worlds: An Exhibition

The works go up tomorrow afternoon. If you are in Wellington, be sure to come by and see my new series of pen and ink works alongside Laura Walker's beautiful gold and copper leaf paper works.

Carolin Prinn & Laura Walker

Entrance To The Secret Worlds
Deluxe, 10 Kent Terrace, Wellington

14 – 28 September

'Entrance To The Secret Worlds' is a two person exhibition featuring the intricate drawings and works of Carolin Prinn & Laura Walker. The two utilize a high level of detail to different effect; The one purely aesthetic and the latter deeply symbolic, together an Entrance To The Secret Worlds.

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The Works of Winter in an Enchanted Studio

It has been a busy few months with so many projects being wrapped up and new ones being created, I thought I might share a few notes. On the right, my first large-scale pen and ink ready to head off to the framers. On the desk, eight small pen and ink works almost ready to frame for a 2 person show (at Deluxe, 14 - 28 September). On the left, the underdrawing is complete for my oil painting and ready for the first layer. This work is part of a series that has been brewing in my mind for a long time. 

I am essentially working on three series in three different mediums at once. My pen & ink works I see as living in a Platonic World of Ideas. Meanwhile, the oil works are more like philosophy at play in reality, which creates this new sense of relationship with and particular sensitivity to my subjects, who are all modelled from real life poses and props. 

These series both continue my usual themes including the strength of the 'story', the 'repetition of history', the philosophical ideal, with both playful and satirical notes. 

I look forward to returning to my acrylic works later this year which I see as the meeting place between these two.

New Pen and Ink Work

Carolin Prinn, Niljora & the Fall of The Grandfather Clock, pen & ink on canson c a grain paper, 297 x 420 mm

Capturing a story from my epic in development, The Stories of Niljora©. A glimpse into my world. Relating the characters into these flattened planes of pen & inks makes their primordial nature even stronger, a kind of lyrical and hieroglyphic storytelling.

Portrait of Lance Ravenswood - Oil on Belgian Linen

Carolin Prinn, Portrait of Lance Ravenswood, oil on belgian linen, 70 x 100 cm

So I painted this one up in time to enter into Wellington's premiere portraiture gallery. Lance has been fortunate to have two portraits done this year. I could hardly believe when I got the letter of acceptance. I'm a chosen finalist for the 2014 ADAM Portraiture Award and will be included on an 18 month national tour through The New Zealand Portrait Gallery which will begin with The PAH Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre. The opening was fantastic with such a lovely variation of works!

Show runs at the NZPG in Wellington / 20 February - 25th May

nzportraitgallery.org.nz

Excerpts From The Large Sketchbook

Ideas are running around my head for my next acrylic series while I am busy getting larger in scale with my pen and inks. I am having another show mid-year in Wellington I am often asked what my work is about as it's quite cryptic and metaphoric. So I thought of a metaphor to describe it...

It's like Socrates and Aristotle arguing on opposite sides of a great table enveloped by a map of the world.

Yes, that works.

www.carolinprinn.com

Dreamy Little Sketch

Carolin Prinn, sketch from my green book, graphite

A New Pen and Ink

Carolin Prinn, The Cycle of These Stories We Tell, pen and ink on canson 'c' a grain paper, 297 x 420 mm

Creating a Label - Prinn Walker & Ravenswood

I have started a new clothing label with two other freelance illustrators in Wellington, something I have dreamed of doing for a long time. I finished the logo last night!

Carolin Prinn

Laura Walker

Lance Ravenswood