Carol works in the landscape, both rural and urban, and produces archival quality, signed, limited edition photographs in her studio. She has exhibited widely and is a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. Before moving to Devon in 1980, Carol worked in London as a professional violinist. She is an Associate of the Royal College of Music and studied music at Dartington College of Arts, Converse College, SC, USA, The Royal College of Music, London and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Musicales, Montreux. She was a member of the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet orchestras and also worked as a freelance violinist in London, playing with various groups including the Academy of the BBC, Bournemouth Symphony, Richard Hickox and Max Jaffa Orchestras. For information about her teaching please go to samstotnes.org.uk Her books Dartmoor Dreams and Stone Universe (published by Halsgrove) with poetry by John Powls celebrate the landscape of Dartmoor. She sees her work as meditations on the landscape and often uses colour as an element of expression in its own right to emphasise the character of the image. Carol works with a digital camera and feels that her background in conventional photography has enabled her to make the most of digital technology by incorporating the skills learned in the darkroom. In 2003 she took part in Landscapes, a series of programmes looking at art and landscape, produced by John Loveless for Carlton Television. As a musician and founder of Arts Live, Carol promotes various projects including live performances combining projected images, poetry and music. "Ashide - a Second Nature" explores Japanese-style gardens in the UK. Listed in the Times Newspaper as one of the top five exhibitions of the week, this exhibition with haiku poetry by John Powls, was shown at the Embassy of Japan in London in 2006. |