CAROLYN BLAKE - A Resumé

Born in Hereford in 1946, Carolyn took up painting at the age of ten, at Saturday classes in the old College of Art in Hereford. She attended full-time at Hereford College of Art as a mature student; and then studied with Welsh artist Roger Cecil, who remained her mentor until his death in 2015.

Carolyn works at home in her studio amidst the gathered relics of flotsam & jetsam of her walks and travels. Her mainly abstract work is inspired and concerned with landscape and the elements, geological faults, ley lines, chalk markings and ancient sites, always attempting to create connections between the organic, the archaeological and the spiritual. Paintings/drawings emerge through a process of layering paint and graphite, scratching and sanding until the traces of time and memory are transformed into a rich and resonant image.

Solo Exhibitions 

The Table, Hay on Wye 2022

Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay on Wye 2015

Silk Top Hat, Gallery, Ludlow 1995, 2005, 2012

Old School Gallery, Bleddfa 2011

Gallery 54, Ross on Wye 2007

Hereford College of Art 2005

The Old Mayor’s Parlour, Hereford 1991

Paired Exhibitions 

The Table, Hay on Wye 2018

Resonance, Hereford City Art Gallery 2002

Group Exhibitions 

Spirit of Fire, Kingsland Church 2023

Seven Last Words, Discoed 2019

h.Art, St Michael’s Church, Discoed 2018

The Table, Hay on Wye 2017, 2018

Gallery 54, Ross on Wye 2016, 2017

40 days 40 artists, Discoed 2017

The Way of the Wilderness, Discoed 2014

Stations of the Cross, Discoed 2012

Art & The Spirit, Bleddfa Centre, Knighton 2005/6

Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow 2006/11/12

Gallery 54, Ross on Wye 2004

Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford 2003

Hereford City Art Gallery 1998 & 1999/2009/11/12

Kilvert Gallery, Clyro 1991 & 1992

Selected Exhibitions 

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1996 & 2014

Royal College of Art Secret Postcard Show 2004-2018

Henley Art Space 1995, 1996, 2000 & 2004-2010

h.Art Open, Hereford 2003 & 2010