About The Artist

Carol Paquet was born in Northern Rhodesia, (now Zambia) of a British father and a South African mother but moved to South Africa at the age of nine. After attending the College of Art in Johannesburg, she worked in the advertising industry as an Art Director for the following 20 years. During this time she worked in Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa) London (UK) and in Southern California. She continued her education in the Fine Arts through privately sponsored programs and while living in Johannesburg, studied etching with William Kentridge - now an internationally acclaimed artist. Paquet has spent many years living abroad and has traveled widely. Cape Town, Munich, London and Toronto have been her homes as has Oakland, California. She now resides on the Central Coast, California, but Africa remains a continual source of inspiration to her. Her work is a response to discarded materials in the environment - a visual conversation between organic matter and industry. She hones in on the minutia and delivers it in a panoramic format. The result is an unearthly and rich textural surface that invites reflection.