bio

Born 1959 in Cheltenham, Carolyn Quartermaine is an Anglo-Swiss artist and photographer based in London, the South of France and Venice.

She has exhibited widely and internationally since 1985 and her work is held in many private collections.

Fine art trained at Cheltenham College of Art and with an MA from the Royal College of Art, London; she has also been a visiting lecturer there since the late 80s and was made a visiting Professor.

Travelling extensively and working globally since the 80s she has created art works, spaces and interiors from Japan to NY to Paris, and is internationally regarded as an avant garde artist and creator, blurring boundaries between art and design.

She has been featured on over 40 front covers and worked as a contributing editor for leading international magazines and has an extensive bibliography. She was named Designer of the Year at Maison et Objects in Paris.

Her paintings, photography, textiles, and collages explore storytelling, capturing the emotion and uniqueness of a moment in time, creating collections and installations for leading design houses such as Baccarat, Givenchy, Vuitton, Ricard, Hermès and Montblanc, to consultancy and art direction for her international clients.

Her career is united by themes of history, literature, nature and philosophy.

She has concentrated in the past seven years on museum and gallery exhibitions and installations, working with huge scale cyanotypes, film, and photography.