Caroline Said Lawrence

As a young child, Caroline grew up in East Africa, but later attended boarding school in Surrey,  followed by St. Martin’s School of Art in London, fully intending to pursue a career in art.

However, she  joined her family which had meanwhile moved to Bahrain and it was not until almost twenty years later that she was able to start her career as a professional artist.

Her first exhibition in Bahrain in 1992 was a great success, and subsequent shows proved to be equally rewarding.

The consensus of opinion among those who view her work is that it generates a satisfying sense of serenity, of contentment in seclusion, of reflection in stillness. Often viewers will remark that they feel a strong desire to be in the places she paints, an opinion which the artist shares.

Said Lawrence’s intensely vivid work often expresses the mood of her childhood memories in East Africa. Her recollections and the light and brilliant colours of the landscape of the exotic places she has lived in invariably surface time and again in her paintings.

In 2002 she settled in Cospicua, where her father’s family originated from, and once again Said Lawrence found herself immersed in a landscape full of vibrancy.

The Maltese landscape has inspired her to produce mixed-media paintings of its magnificent vistas, and a new series of paintings depicting the magical antiquity of the Three Cities.

Said Lawrence is experimental in her work and uses collage, acrylic, charcoal, graphite lead and paint in experimental ways. Surely, this globetrotter of a lifelong artist will leave her special mark on  the bettija’rt.