Carrie Jean Goldsmith uses various media to create abstract works with colour, light and tonal gradation key elements to her work. Goldsmith incorporates a layering process, celebrating the varying brush marks and luminosity of paint, resulting in a happening of sorts, the unforeseen.
Goldsmith endeavours to create imagery that is both compelling and ambiguous, always with a sense of light. There is, at times, a relationship to the landscape whilst not being site specific. Her palette features richly deep hues, the language of nature, with many pieces expressing a purely abstract aesthetic. There is a balance between expressionism and informed thought.
Canadian born artist Carrie Jean Goldsmith lives and works in the UK. Having painted for more than 20 years, she describes herself as an Abstract Expressionist and cites her early influences as including Juan Gris, Emily Carr, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington, Edward Burra, Juan Gris, and more recently Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, Richard Diebenkorn, Sean Scully and Peter Doig.