“Carolyn Spaenjaers paints. That could have been the conclusion of this entire introduction because the basis of her work is painting as an ‘open’ process that begins with a blank panel. Her paintings cannot be mapped out in advance but are formed as she works. With Carolyn this results in bigger panels that are created out of feeling. Paint is applied layer by layer until a maximal tension between the forms is created; a tension that lets them support each other and lift the other to a higher level.”
– Ernest Van Buynder, voorzitter van de Vrienden van het M HKA
Carolyn Spaenjaers was born in Antwerp in 1987. She studied graphic design at St-Lucas in Antwerp, followed by a Visual Arts degree at ERG/St-Lucas Brussels.
After her studies she lived and travelled in different cities and countries such as Barcelona, Milan, Berlin, Japan and different countries in South-America always in search for inspiration and new art techniques.
The inspiration for her works stems from landscapes and other objects that she observes around her and which are then transposed onto large wooden panels using industrial glue and products, giving relief and texture, augmented by spray-painted lines.
This publication contains a selection of her works on Arctic Volume White. The cover is shorter than the inner pages, which creates an interaction between the image on the first and last page and the image on the cover. The inner pages were printed in Quadri with an extra PMS silver. For the cover we used an extra PMS gold.