Experiences | Conchita Carambano

  • Conchita Carambano, The Lovers Pardon Before Pompeii
  • Conchita Carambano, I'll Follow Their Lead
  • Conchita Carambano, The Meeting Place
  • Conchita Carambano, Somethings Got To Give
  • Conchita Carambano, Deep Conversations
  • Conchita Carambano, Follow Them
  • Conchita Carambano, Watching The Eggs
  • Conchita Carambano, Watching the Moon
  • Conchita Carambano, We'll Meet In The Middle
  • Conchita Carambano, Delightful
  • Conchita Carambano, Clarets Play
  • Conchita Carambano, Under My Aqua Umbrella
  • Conchita Carambano, Nights Reflections on Pompeii
  • Conchita Carambano, The Talk

Experiences
19 November - 8 December 2009

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I’ve been painting since I left school and when I started art school, I thought what a wonderful place it was.  I knew right away that this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life - paint and create.

I experience both beautiful and sad things through everyday life and these experiences generate a strong need to paint. 

Whenever I face a blank piece of large, good quality paper I know right away that I need to touch it and feel the quality, arrange the palettes, squeeze the paint tube and watch the vibrant oils, acrylics or pastel chalk in my hand, and know it will soon come alive in the form of a drawing or a painting.  When I start, I focus on an idea or experience and let my feelings take control.  At times the painting starts to take on a completely new direction to the initial one I had in mind, however, I am its creator and to this extent have control over the end result. 

I’m content in the realisation that everyone that sees one of my works has different interpretations, a new ‘feeling’ to my original intentions. I love that my work acquires different interpretations and appearances outside my studio.  It becomes more a child born to me.

During my development, I have been able to focus on nature and the incredible sensation I get from being able to transfer my feelings to paper or canvas.  Because at times these inspirations come to me when I’m unable to paint, I have developed an ability to store these ideas and expand on them later, sometimes in the form of a new direction.

Being an artist is my life, and in no way could I imagine being, or doing, anything else.