{"id":8,"date":"2024-05-29T10:55:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T13:01:51","slug":"about-carole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/about-carole\/","title":{"rendered":"About Carole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns alignfull stk-block-columns stk-block stk-8109ec4\" data-block-id=\"8109ec4\"><style>.stk-8109ec4-column{--stk-columns-spacing:0px !important;--stk-column-gap:40px !important}@media screen and (max-width:689px){.stk-8109ec4{--stk-col-order-1:2 !important;--stk-col-order-2:1 !important}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-8109ec4-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-8bb3e84\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"8bb3e84\"><style>@media screen and (min-width:690px){.stk-8bb3e84{flex:var(--stk-flex-grow,1) 1 calc(40% - var(--stk-column-gap,0px) * 1 \/ 2 ) !important}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-8bb3e84-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-8bb3e84-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-6c629a8\" id=\"about-carole\" data-block-id=\"6c629a8\"><h1 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">Carole Salmon<\/h1><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just paint what inspires me. That can be anything, from a pot on a market stall to a view of Dartmoor, or a bowl of fruit and a group of friends sitting round the dinner table.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I studied Art at Farnham then Bath Academy and in Nice. I lived in Provence, where my mother was from, for 10 years and had a screen-printing studio there and made films. I also became interested in building houses which I\u2019m still involved in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am obsessed with colour, as my mother was who also painted. We\u2019d often have long chats about the extraordinary variety and subtle qualities of colours whilst sitting together on a bench in Regents Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While much of my earlier work was in acrylic, more recently it has been mostly in oils. Both mediums are great, but in very different ways.\u00a0\u00a0Acrylics are more immediate and I tend to use them for abstract paintings. But there\u2019s a depth in oils. You can move things around and blend colours together. There\u2019s just more flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I take a lot of photos and sometimes they become a starting point for a painting. I can capture something quirky or beautiful with a photo, and this serves as a basis for composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-button-group stk-block-button-group stk-block stk-a224744\" data-block-id=\"a224744\"><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks stk-block-content stk-button-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-button stk-block-button stk-block stk-c8ff99c\" data-block-id=\"c8ff99c\"><style>.stk-c8ff99c .stk-button{background:#5b88a7 !important}.stk-c8ff99c .stk-button .stk--inner-svg svg:last-child,.stk-c8ff99c .stk-button .stk--inner-svg svg:last-child :is(g,path,rect,polygon,ellipse){fill:#5b88a7 !important}.stk-c8ff99c .stk-button__inner-text{font-family:\"Carlito\",Sans-serif !important}<\/style><a class=\"stk-link stk-button stk--hover-effect-darken\" href=\"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/contact\/\"><span class=\"stk-button__inner-text\">Contact Carole<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-b6ddae4\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"b6ddae4\"><style>.stk-b6ddae4-container{margin-top:0px !important;margin-right:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;margin-left:0px !important}@media screen and (min-width:690px){.stk-b6ddae4{flex:var(--stk-flex-grow,1) 1 calc(60% - var(--stk-column-gap,0px) * 1 \/ 2 ) !important}}@media screen and (max-width:689px){.stk-b6ddae4-container{margin-top:0px !important;margin-right:0px !important;margin-bottom:0px !important;margin-left:0px !important}.stk-b6ddae4-inner-blocks{justify-content:flex-start !important}}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-b6ddae4-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-b6ddae4-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-image stk-block-image has-text-align-left stk-block stk-0525810\" data-block-id=\"0525810\"><style>.stk-0525810 .stk-img-wrapper{width:580px !important}@media screen and (max-width:689px){.stk-0525810{margin-bottom:22px !important}.stk-0525810 .stk-img-wrapper{width:50% !important}}<\/style><figure><span class=\"stk-img-wrapper stk-image--shape-stretch stk--has-lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"stk-img wp-image-17\" src=\"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SelfPortrait-823x1024.jpg\" width=\"823\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SelfPortrait-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SelfPortrait-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SelfPortrait-768x956.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SelfPortrait-1234x1536.jpg 1234w, https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SelfPortrait.jpg 1607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/span><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carole Salmon I just paint what inspires me. That can be anything, from a pot on a market stall to a view of Dartmoor, or a bowl of fruit and a group of friends sitting round the dinner table.\u00a0 I studied Art at Farnham then Bath Academy and in Nice. I lived in Provence, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolesalmon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}