Written by Anna Itkonen
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Carol Zsolt
Carol Zsolt is an abstract artist based in Melbourne. Even though she has always been a creative person, she never considered art as a career when growing up. “I couldn’t run nor throw, but I was always creative and crafty.” Now, after 30 years in the corporate world, she practices her passion as a part-time artist, and whenever she doesn’t work, she paints.
Inspiration 7 – Big and Bright | 122 x 96cm | Acrylic on stretched canvas
Her art has always been abstract, experimenting with various techniques, styles and colours. She has expressed her love for how her art has changed over the years. As she matured as an artist, her artistic ambitions grew, and her paintings did not feel complete. She then introduced the line to the base of brush strokes, drips and different techniques and found her distinctive style of abstract expression.
It’s blue | 40.5 x 50.5cm | Acrylic on stretched canvas
“My art is about colour and form. How the different colours work together,” Carol said. “I don’t have a lot of emotion in my art. I am not an emotive person like that. It is not a matter of how I feel that day, just about colours, shapes and how they can go together.”
Tickled Pink | 117 x 117cm | Acrylic on stretched canvas
“I have realised that I am more of a control freak than I thought. You do see that in my art. There are a lot of psychological things and a lot of subconscious. I am also a maximalist artist. My canvasses are filled with colours, forms and details.”
Inspiration 21 | 76 x 152cm | Acrylic on stretched canvas
Carol has talked about her ambition for her art to be different and appealing. Her distinctive style derives from her attention to detail and ability to look beyond the brush stroke while outlining every square and swirl. It is about the maximalist element of her art, where there is something everywhere. The canvas is never “naked”, as she called it herself.
Flowering | 51 x 76cm | Acrylic on stretched canvas
Carol’s paintings are built layer upon layer of colour and brushstrokes. After the first colour, the following colours are guided by what intrigues her aesthetically. The lines and the forms create the last layer. The part that she lovingly calls “a little bit OCD”.
“I do most of my painting in my bed. I cannot paint standing up as my arm cannot be upright for the outlines or the squares. I feel I cannot control the movement of the brush the way I want to. But it is not just that. I paint where I feel most relaxed and comfortable. I sit on my bed, have the TV on at the same and all my sheets have paint on them!”
This is Melbourne |122 x 76cm | Acrylic on stretched canvas
Carol has always been experimenting with her art, and it is something that preoccupies her mind daily; how to explore and balance the figurative and the abstract, the interest in learning how to paint faces and the idea of experimenting with portraiture and still lives in her own style with swirls and outlines.
We are the same but different – Starry Night | 90 x 90cm | Acrylic on stretched canvas
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