December 11, 2014
Cariña Booyens, born 1977, studied at University of Tshwane, South Africa where she received her Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2000. She later worked as Project Manager, Project Assistant and Curriculum and Logistics Assistant to the Director of the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg until she immigrated to the United States.
Negotiating the enigmatic pleasures of the ‘new world’ brought her to an accidental exploration of acrylic paint and the act of losing herself in time and space. The birth of Sparkly/Shiny was quite serendipitous.
Since discovering the amazing reflective qualities of sparkly paint Cariña has become captivated with iridescence and shifting luminescence within a painting. The constant surprises of how the paintings become more than just her creation, it becomes its own being. The new owner of the painting will learn much more of the paintings personality than the maker.
Her current work focuses on the expression of the internal landscape which finds its vocabulary in Nature. In this body of abstract paintings she develops a visual language which describes a world which is seen with the emotional eye. The work springs forth as a spontaneous flow of movement that dances against a neutral but rich background that both anchors and frees the shapes that appear on it. The images are uninhibited expressions of what the artists has come to know as “flow”.
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