Painting a Magical World

I have been inspired to do some digital painting as of late. Here I illustrated a scene from my story world, The Islands of Niljora. I have an exciting project in the works for this world of mine. Stay tuned.

Adam Portraiture Award Exhibition Opens This Week

My work will be hung at The New Zealand Portrait Gallery from this Wednesday.

The show features finalists of this years' Adam Portraiture Award, selected by Guest Judge Mette Skougaard, Director of The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark. 

If you are in Wellington, the show will be on display at The NZPG, Shed 11 from the 25 February to 29 May 2016. There will also be a People's Choice Award which you can vote for during your visit.

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

Framed Limited Edition Prints

Carolin Prinn, The Temporary Muse, Limited Edition Print (1/50)

Carolin Prinn, Climbing To You, Limited Edition Print (1/50)

Carolin Prinn, The Beauty & The Terrible Beast, Limited Edition Print (1/50)

A selection of my Framed Limited Edition Prints are now available at Little Thunder and at 2 Eva Street Studios - both in Wellington. Archival giclee fine art prints on german etching paper, signed & numbered, Editions of 50. I also sell many more prints through my website and my etsy shop. Framed & unframed options available.

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. 

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

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.

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