Caroline Underwood

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I graduated from Chelsea with BA Hons Fine Art Painting in 2003 and completed MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2007. Since completing a postgraduate teaching qualification in 2004 I have taught Art & Graphics part-time at a Specialist Arts College in Southeast London. I am an active studio member of Creekside Artists in Deptford, organising and participating in frequent events including open studio weekends, group exhibitions, collaborative drawing activities and local community projects. This year I have been an artist-in-residence at University for the Creative Arts, as part of the Arts Council's AA2A scheme.

My art work is inspired by the meditative potential of landscape. My landscape-inspired artworks represent time spent 'being in' nature, rather than places depicted as observed from fixed viewpoints. Landmarks are abstracted, to allow space for each viewer to read into the work their own personal experiences and memories of places and times. The work often develops in series, representing the way we often experience our environment - not standing still, but moving through it. I am fascinated by fractals, and the apparently random but in fact systematic structures found in nature - I often use number systems or geometric forms in the composition of my work, in order to convey this sense of 'ordered chaos'.

Previous Exhibits

2009-2010 - Creekside Artists Open Studios, London SE8
2007-2010 - Brockley Open Studios, London SE4
2010 - Columbia Road Gallery, London E2 & Laurence Mitchell Gallery, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
2010 - South London Women Artists at Dulwich Library, London SE22
2010 - Piece for Peace - collaborative textiles exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse
2010 - alturnertive: 100 Journals - collaborative drawing exhibition at UCA Canterbury
2010 - Creekside Artists In The Limelight at The Limelight Gallery, London SE13
2009 - Drawing Distant Seas and Iconology: The Mysticism of Image Making at Caxton Contemporary, Kent
2009 - Mini Print at Artlink Gallery and Community Arts Centre, East Yorkshire