Galerie Chaton

Carol van Tonder - Betwixt & Between (Creating the ordinary out of the extraordinary)

25 March to 12 April 2023
 
Carol van Tonder, born and bred Pretorian, was a teacher before she became a full-time artist.  She works mainly with water colours, coloured inks and ink pens on paper.  Images of shipwrecks, flotsam and jetsam, and architectural features to name but a few, provide ideas to create the new drawings she works on.
 
“Emotion plays a large role in my work.  I observe those around me searching for a balance in their lives.  My senses are exposed to hundreds of visual narratives on a daily basis waiting to be illustrated.  I take time to see, to look, to absorb, to process, to conceptualise and to create.  This is my artistic process.”
 
With these visual narratives the artist conceals and reveals intricate details.  “My process is organic and shapes bleed into new ones to create my own altered reality.”  She researched images of fauna, flora, nanotechnology and the sea to use in her drawings.
 
Carol van Tonder had solo exhibitions at the Art Box and has taken parts in several group exhibitions.