Carole Schilbach

Carole’s life has been one of interest and curiosity for landscapes, cultures and their different colours and shades around the world. Born in Amman, Jordan in 1965 she has initially been a fond and proud observer of her native Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture, a seemingly immovable still life of mostly natural stone formations and sand colours. The sun, however, provides these colours with a wealth of different tones during daytime, and at night, the moon and stars over the desert offer a sheer endless range of blues and greys. The Jordanian Wadis of Rum or Mujib remain her definition for the beauty of Earth and inspiration for her creativity.

CAROLE SCHILBACH

Already during her childhood and studies, Carole has travelled and opened her mind for other, mainly European cultures. She has visited most of the famous museums and cultural landmarks of the continent. But that should be only the beginning of her journey around the world. At the age of 26 she married a diplomat and, thus, booked a lifetime travel privilege – not as a tourist, but as long-term visitor and observer of cultures and colours in the Caucasus region, the Caribbean and Mexico.

MOSAIC THE FISH, (165 x 45cm)

Her first piece of art is a mosaic, created during her stay in Beirut and from earlier impressions in her home country Jordan. She cautiously used light grey tones of glass and some blue and turquoise. Although she has done only few more mosaic works, a pattern of squares remained the basis of all her later acrylic paintings.

RISE, (90 x 90cm)

Beside the move from mosaic to painting, Carole started using more colours – mostly primary colours. Although inspired by the rich natures of islands in the Caribbean and later in Mexico, she wanted her paintings to be fresh, joyous but clearly stayed away from going into the styles of local artists or handicraft whose mix of tones often is very daring.

AT THE FISH MARKET, (70 x 70cm)

Nature very often provided Carole with materials to use for her artwork: sand, pebble, acorn, cork, pieces of wood, grass – her creativity of what you can do in art is wide open.

HUNGRY, (140 x 75cm)

As to the objects of her works, they often depended on her mood and mostly were depicted in an abstract manner.

She painted people, repeatedly her own family, or animals – here again she preferred her cats as motifs, which have always been present in her childhood home or at her grandmother’s in pre-war Beirut.

JOLLY BIRDS, (80cm x 100cm)

Occasionally, she did paintings by order or for friends and followed their wishes for colours, but always remained loyal to her own motifs, style and technique.

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FAMILY PORTRAIT, (90cm x 90cm)