Caroline Tomlinson’s latest edition, Homewards, was created as a result of her ongoing exploration of her process. Currently, Caroline is exploring creating with looser lines, whilst simultaneously drawing from her imagination. This is alongside a continued investigation of motifs that are meaningful to her story, and the looking for a sense of home and belonging.
Working as a full time illustrator means Caroline often has a photographic reference that she needs to follow for a commercial brief. Thus, within her own practice, she wants to use her time to continue expanding on the theme of travel. However, this theme goes beyond the more standardised version of holidays abroad and soaking up the sun on a beach. Instead, Caroline focuses on travel in reference to a ‘journey’, and the search to find your place in the world.
For these new editions, she creates whilst drawing from imagination and exploring symbolic references. Caroline describes Homewards as; “A bird, on a flight path, golden key in beak, heading to a pre set destination, the return – ready for home. However, this bird is decorated with no normal bird markings ,but instead blooms. The markings of growth, change as they return home.” The piece is a one colour silkscreen, finished with gold leaf, and printed in an edition of 50.
Caroline concludes; “Travel changes us, we rarely return the same version of ourselves, there are often ups and downs but those are what make a journey not only memorable but the making of us. A growing up into us, a bloom, an opening up into a new chapter.”
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