Carla Armour - Artist & Designer

Welcome to my Artistic Expression Page!
A space to share my creative endeavors with the world.
Enjoy.

Generally, my work has always been investigative & meditative with social and political commentary thrown in.

I am a multi-media artist and designer. As an Abstract painter, I immerse myself in the material and process; using found objects for ‘mark-making’, acrylics, oils and mixed media as well as collage, I employ colour theory and symbolism, with automatic writing and free drawing, exploring with the effects and tensions that reveal themselves. As an avid runner and Pilates & wellbeing coach I know inspiration also comes during my morning runs, the shapes of the moving body of my Pilates clients and of-course journal entries recording life’s interactions. Most significant, the practice of art is practice. Learning to lose the ego and watch as the message reveals itself.

When I am writing which is often the way I start my painting, I can spend hours manipulating the shapes, spaces, rhythms and textures of words, finding the imagery and tempting the senses to see, taste or feel the patterns. It is the exact same with my visual work actually; mostly layering and abstracting the human figure, grids, patterns, symbols and ‘environment-scapes’ to present a restorative space for the viewer. My work should have resonance as I want others experiencing it to feel intimate, liberated and reflective.

Of-course, I look at a lot of artists’ work from prehistoric paintings and Petroglyphs, the great masters to current movements but admittedly I have also been influenced by Georgia O’Keefe, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Rothko, Mondrian, Albers, many renowned Caribbean artists and more recently to Social, Performance and Installation artists Carol Walker, Theaster Gates and Marina Abramovic. I am also very drawn to the Theosophists and Supremacism’s Blavatsky, Malevich, Klee and Kandinsky.