Caroline Bullock has been a working artist exhibiting her art for over 25 years. Her work is included in multiple private and corporate collections worldwide. In Atlanta, she is represented by one of the Southeast's leading art galleries, Spalding Nix Fine Art. She also enjoys working directly with designers and collectors to create custom commissioned pieces or licensed imagery for a broad range of art programs.
The work I make is a visual record of my human attempt to understand the universe. Philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of reality and impermanence play a key role in all that I create. I am intrigued by the unseen and subterranean and what happens at the subatomic level. The natural world, specifically the plant world, is a constant source of inspiration for my work. It teaches me about balance, seasonality, courage and endurance, and the interdependence of all things.
I source local materials from nature, often my garden, to create cyanotypes that form the physical backdrop of the work and also serve as a direct marker of place in time. Water based media is then added to the cyanotypes to create additional layers of imagery. In some pieces, gravity is allowed to do the work, trusting the paint to forge its own way into myriad shapes and forms. In others, the composition is rendered in dense matte paint, capturing both object and shadow as one, blurring the perception of the two as unique to one another. Despite the disparate approaches to the works, the final paintings are an attempt to understand non-duality through seemingly dualistic processes and imagery.
