Carolyn Graham

Born in Surrey, Carolyn Graham began her art studies at Epsom Art School at age fourteen, developing a particular interest in sculpture. After migrating to Australia in the early 1960s, she married and raised a family, all the while continuing her passion for sculpture. Inspired by her son’s studies in printmaking at art school in Melbourne, she purchased her first set of tools and began exploring the medium herself.

In 1994, Carolyn and her husband moved to Somerset, UK, where she joined the Poole Printmakers and exhibited widely across the West Country. Her work was shown in solo exhibitions, including the Black Swan Gallery in Frome (1998), and she regularly participated in the Bath Art Society Open exhibition, winning the Bath Printmaker’s Prize in 2001.

Working primarily with reduction printmaking in wood and lino, Carolyn brings spontaneity and life to her prints, often on a small scale. Since returning to Australia in 2001, she has focused on depicting the landscape around Castlemaine, holding multiple solo exhibitions at the Falkner Gallery, and showing work at the Castlemaine Art Gallery and the Ballarat Art Gallery.