Carolyn was born in Wimbledon in 1959. From an early age she had a keen interest in drawing both people and animals from life.
In 1989 Carolyn was employed to design and develop historical reproductions and collectibles which involved collaboration and much research with important museums, in particular, and with greatest impact on Carolyn, the Victoria and Albert Museum. Taking inspiration from this wonderful collection, Carolyn was also to brief sculptors to create new original figurative sculpture.
The late Sheila Mitchell FRBS was one of these sculptors and was to become Carolyn’s great friend and mentor.
In 1995, Carolyn bought a bag of clay to ‘see if she could sculpt’. This figurative piece was produced by Royal Worcester Porcelain the same year and more commissions followed from the other Great Porcelain Houses, Royal Doulton and Wedgwood.
In 2002, she was commissioned to make a portrait of a Labrador dog in bronze and more opportunities to create sculpture in this exciting medium started to come her way. She was commissioned for a number of bronze horse sculptures, a subject close to her heart being a life long horse owner.
Moving to Dubai in 2003 further enriched Carolyn’s work with new ideas and resulted in some notable commissions, including a life size bronze bust of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Makthoum, ruler of Dubai and Vice president of the UAE and a posthumous life size bronze bust of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nayhan, now situated in the Foreign Office in Abu Dhabi.
Known for her uncanny likenesses and attention to detail, Carolyn still works mostly to commission and also produces her own limited editions, frequently with a middle eastern theme. Carolyn’s work is widely collected, with clients in the Middle East, South Africa, Cyprus, USA and the UK.
