about
writer + artist dabbler + doodler
bali + to
biography
Residing between Toronto and Bali, writer and artist, Jules Caroline’s intuitive abstract minimalist work is layered and torn, much like her world, living wholly in two places. Her pieces pay tribute to her island home through her choice of materials, to her Canadian home through her palette, to a love of patchwork quilts, and to the butterfly inlay joinery of the large farm table that she traced her fingers across during many a meal growing up.
“I move through the papers, colours, textures and the compositions intuitively. It’s about feeling calm, something I hope it gives others while sitting with the work. There’s something about the random meeting with the purposeful that I thoroughly enjoy.”
about her art
Her acrylic and ink-washed rice paper and banana leaf paper pieces are made in her Bali studio. The pieces emerged when the whole world was on pause during the pandemic and haven’t stopped since. Large scale pieces made in a small space are an art in of itself, one she has mastered, but is very much ready to see what a larger space would lead to. She imagines it will just mean even larger works that will continue to devour the space!
She loves to place art in unexpected places, often playing with wrapping her canvas edges or going even further and wrapping the very work itself around the walls where they hang. She explores the latter with her Corner Shop collection. Ultimately everything is about a feeling. How she feels when she makes a piece, how the piece makes whomever is taking it in feel. Her hope is that her pieces are an invitation to come and sip a hot cup of something while taking them in. The rips and tears and wrapping involved with each piece, while often messy, and seemingly destructive, is a surprisingly calming, healing process, and the end result is meant to communicate this unexpected calm. Delving into the natural inconsistencies, dents and dings, the unintentional damage in each sheet of paper before it reaches her brushes, she then luxuriates in adding her own marks and making it all work together.
I’d love to work together.
Merging your vision with my own is an opportunity that I relish in and I find it often leads to pieces that are all the better for the collaboration.
Have a size, a palette, an idea, just something in mind? Please share it with me. Let’s hash it out. We can work together to bring it to life.
Each commission is a fusing of what you’re envisioning for your space and your world, while staying true to my own feeling and flow for a piece.
The first step is to reach out.
We can discuss exhibition inquiries, sales, as well as what creating a custom piece would entail. Alternatively I can help you decide on which available piece is best suited to you and your space.
All available artwork can be shipped locally free of charge, shipped internationally or even picked up in person in Toronto or in Bali, depending on where I am and where the piece is.