'Carolyn is a spiritual artist. Her worldview emphasizes a respect for all living creatures and an openness to primal natural forces as a model for integration in our fragmented world. True creativity involves breaking through inhibitions. In our society, which emphasizes market values and objectivity, attaining true creative freedom is fraught with challenges. To help overcome these obstacles, Carolyn prefers to paint quickly, capturing the spontaneity of the moment. Working in the immediate moment involves chance. Carolyn believes spontaneity is a means to tap into truths that lay beyond oneself. In this, she belongs to a lineage of avant-garde artists such as the composer John Cage, who advocated using chance to undermine the role of ego in art. Indeterminate techniques create a situation of active non-intention. Carolyn believes that when people let go and relinquish total control, they are in a better position to grasp the subtle messages and deep truths both within and around them. She lets herself function as an ‘instrument’ or mediator of nature, becoming a neutral conduit. Color is essential to the way Carolyn works. Often a painting originates with a color impression—red, blue, or gold—that ignites her imagination and provides a starting point for a series of cascading relationships, synthesizing lyrics, color and poetic symbolism into unrestrained, liberating improvisations. As she explains, ‘Color holds emotional vibrations and emotions are the brain of the instincts.’ Carolyn understands the entire world as a great metaphysical structure involving the essential mysteries of time, space, matter, and fate. She paints to reveal these eternally mysterious truths. By capturing these universal wonders in a work of art, she invites us to grasp the essential paradox of life. That is the great gift of her art.'