Carol paints in acrylics on canvas, creating colourful landscape, figurative and abstract designs.

Carol stretches unprimed canvas over sturdy stretchers, then primes the canvas with several coats of gesso. She paints with fade-proof acrylics, cures the work, then varnishes it.

Her use of strong colours gives the paintings a design tension and contrast that keep the viewer drawn into the work. Her paintings have just enough figurative elements within the abstraction for each viewer to see something personal in the piece.

Most viewers say her paintings leave them with a feeling of optimisim and enthusiasm.

"When I get an idea for a new painting, I ponder the possibilities for a few days. Then I stare at the blank canvas. Then I make sketches. Finally I start and I don't stop until it's finished. Then I am free to do other things (snorkel, party, bushwalk). Then another idea takes hold and I can't let go of it. I must paint it, and the process begins again."

"I now create mainly Figurative Symbolic paintings. An object in these paintings morphs into another object (a bomb to a bird, a swish of hair into a key, a necklace into moons). Each viewer interprets these paintings differently. It's wonderfully fascinating to hear what people think these works mean. The interpretations vary wildly."