About Caroline Burton

Caroline Burton is a multi-disciplinary artist residing in New Zealand.  She creates abstract contemporary artworks using a range of mediums, including wool and silk fibres, paint and stitch.  Caroline has also developed a process for creating and capturing ephemeral fibre artworks which she reproduces as fine art prints. Burton’s work explores parallels between the physical and the spiritual, the seen and the unseen. Taking inspiration from the natural world and drawing on her imagination she works intuitively to give body to the unseen world as she perceives it.

Caroline originally trained and worked as an engineer.  Evidence of this previous vocation can be seen in some of her chosen subject matter: a fascination with geological forms and processes, for instance.  Through diligent practise, Burton has found a passion for creating art that has totally enthralled her.

On her artistic journey, Caroline has discovered a need not only to express her own innate creativity but also to encourage others to discover and nurture their own. This has led her to become actively involved in projects which foster the arts in her local area.

“My art practise is at once a celebration and an exploration.  Every time I make art, it is in celebration of the fundamental truth that I have discovered, which is as old as time: that I have been created with creativity in me.  At the same time, I am exploring creation itself; humanity, the vastness of the unseen parts of even the very ground beneath our feet.  These are the things that remind me that there is so much that we don’t yet know.  

The challenge of discovering ways to express these thoughts and explorations has proved compelling.  The process of sculpting and painting with un-spun fibres, for instance, fascinates me with every new piece that I create. There is an alchemy to the process of transforming wisps of fibre into something with form, structure and strength.”