Caroline Boff
United Kingdom
Having been seen in British Vogue, Vanity Fair, Tatler, House and Garden, London Life and Collection, Boff is more inspired than ever to create her wonderous compositions filled with energy, feeling, movement and colour. Her worldwide travels and intense experiences have afforded her with an unlimited source of inspiration, as such Caroline’s paintings are fittingly bold and vibrant. Boff is an English artist who eloquently uses a charming array of surfaces and in the fashionable acrylic paint, with which to communicate her philosophical ideals. She would like the viewers of her paintings to feel happy, joyous and inspired. She has upcoming exhibitions in ‘Women of the World’ LINKEDINNYC, Tribeca, New York and at Spectrum Miami and is soon going to be on the cover of Rugby’s Floreat. She has recently been taken on by the London and Hampshire based gallery Tin Man Art and by New York’s M Moser – a global design firm specialising in progressive work places. Caroline has also recently been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
The Dance Off
1. What’s your background?
I'm a self taught, emerging, international, contemporary artist based in the UK. I have a degree in Economics and Sociology from Bristol University and a diploma in Psychology. I studied Spanish in Spain and worked as a journalist in Cairo. In my younger years I honed my skills as a dancer and choreographer and worked as semi-professional dancer. In more recent times I worked as a student support worker for people with disabilities at university. Art is and always has been my first love and I feel very blessed to be following my passion.
2. What does your work aim to say?
My work can be a social commentary in general and also it can be way of expressing myself and sometimes can be a very personal picture of my experiences. My main aim is that my work makes people feel happy or feel something - anything - as I believe this can afford a useful and necessary shift in the viewers life.
3. How does your work comment on current social or political issues?
Via feelings and the way in which I felt when I administered the paint to the canvas. The titles are a clue and sometimes this is a direct comment in itself but the painting itself can be interpreted and speak to the viewer in different ways. As my paintings are generally bold they are naturally more noticeable yet definitely powerful and intense.
4. Who are your biggest influences?
My biggest influences are David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gough, Gauguin, Tracy Emin and Lowenberg.
5. How has your art evolved over the years?
My art has been a journey including many different styles of work. This has been done out of a love of the act of putting paint on the surface. It is an experimentation of how best to express myself effectively.
6. What does art mean to you?
To me art means to be happy, to communicate, to live and to love.
7. What’s the most valuable piece of art to you?
The most valuable painting to me is my painting 'Home' which you can view in Artwork, The Journey on my website. This is a beautiful, expressionist painting of a traditional Latino home. It is one of my wishes to own a house like this and to live between England and Spain and more countries such as the Caribbean and maybe Thailand when I can.
8. What’s next for you in the future?
I have upcoming exhibitions in New York and Miami and will be on the cover of Rugby School's Floreat. I intend to garner more gallery representation, work with more interior designers, work spaces and places.
Fields of Flowers
