Carolyn Fels’ paintings conjugate the aesthetics of modernist abstraction within the expressive possibilities of various genres. In the reference to the natural world Fels contours her own investigations whilst paying homage to her history as a landscape artist. The canvases, although in some ways formal, geometric and ordered nonetheless express, through variations in surface, colour and ‘imperfections’, or indeed ‘eccentricities’, something more than classical calm. At the core is a determination to represent emotional states and constant humanist values. The result is a fusion of landscape painting with the geometry of abstractions.

Simeon Kronenberg
1994

Carolyn Fels was born in Melbourne in 1941, and studied at the National Gallery Art School in 1960 and George Bell School in 1962. Carolyn completed a Bachelor of Arts at University of Melbourne in 1979, and later in 2003, a Master of Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. Carolyn has exhibited extensively since 1988. She was represented by Michael Wardell Gallery and 13 Verity Street Gallery (Melbourne), King Street Gallery (Sydney), and Jan Murphy Gallery (Brisbane). Carolyn has work in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, as well as numerous other public and private collections.