John O'Carroll British, b. 1958
John O’Carroll is a contemporary artist with an interesting backstory in Egyptology. A robust art practitioner throughout his life, O’Carroll continues to divide his time between his studio in north Cornwall, his winter studio in southern Egypt, and Amsterdam where he is also represented by the Roger Katwijk gallery.
On first viewing O’Carroll’s abstract paintings and mixed media wall pieces sit neatly within British and European modernism and yet they are set free from historical context. A master with pigment, O’Carroll’s airy minimalist paintings are built from impressions of the spaces through which he has traveled. ‘Making’ is fundamental to his sense of self and John can't imagine life without the flow of creative expression. Over the years O’Carroll has explored a range of traditional and modern painting techniques and his home-made paint from raw pigments has roots in his study of ancient civilisations.
Artists and poets are often driven by what Carl Jung describes as the soul wound - in Greek mythology, the learned centaur Chiron was the healer who could not heal himself of the wound inflicted by the poisoned arrow of Heracles. John O’Carroll is drawn to arid landscapes and barren English moors which invite a man to scream into the void: When he was six John and his mother went to live in west Texas where he was surrounded by imposing vastness. As a teenager he saw the big and the wide of Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. O’Carroll's art whispers of these unpeopled landscapes which he distills into elegant abstract panoramas and richly pigmented roundels.
John O’Carroll’s work can be found in private collections and corporate collections such as those of Akzo Nobel, AMC, VUmc, Loyens & Loeff, Accenture and the NCM British Headquarters in Cardiff, The British Embassy in Cairo and the Netherlands Flemish Institute in Cairo.
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John O'CarrollExpanse II, 2022Indigo pigment, gesso, mica, resin on panel with steel frame200 x 95 cmJohn O'Carroll, Expanse II, 2022£ 8,900.00
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John O'CarrollExpanse , 2022Indigo pigment, gesso, mica, resin on panel with steel frame200 x 95 cmJohn O'Carroll, Expanse , 2022Sold
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John O'CarrollBroken Sky III, 2022Gesso, natural pigment, silver, copper leaf, resin on panel122 x 62 cm
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John O'CarrollSol , 2020Gesso, pure pigment, copper and goldleaf, resin on panel120 cm (diameter)John O'Carroll, Sol , 2020£ 4,200.00
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John O'CarrollCornish Icon, 2022Wax, pigment, copper and gold leaf on wooden panel£2,200.00
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John O'CarrollLuna Boat, 2022Pigment on wood with copper disc
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John O'CarrollBroken Sky II, 2021Gesso, natural pigment, silver, copper leaf on panel120 x 120 cmJohn O'Carroll, Broken Sky II, 2021Sold
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John O'CarrollBroken Sky III (Stepper), 2021Gesso, natural pigment, silver, copper leaf on panel120 x 120 cmJohn O'Carroll, Broken Sky III (Stepper), 2021Sold
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John O'CarrollMAELSTROM, 2020Gesso, natural pigment, silver and gold leaf on panel95 x 200 cmBespoke steel frame
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John O'CarrollIndigo Moon , 2020Gesso, pure indigo pigment, gold leaf, resin on panel120 cm (diameter)Bespoke steel frame
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John O'CarrollMAELSTROM III, 2020Gesso, natural pigment, silver, gold leaf, resin on panel with a bespoke steel frame95 x 200 cmBespoke steel frameJohn O'Carroll, MAELSTROM III, 2020Sold
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John O'CarrollBreakwater IV, 2019Gesso, natural pigment, silver and copper leaf on panel72 x 200 cmBespoke steel frame
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John O'CarrollMAELSTROM II, 2021Gesso, natural pigment, silver and copper leaf on panel160 x 54 cmBespoke steel frame
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John O'CarrollBreakwater X, 2020Gesso, natural pigment, silver and gold leaf on panel110 x 78 cm (each panel)Bespoke steel frame
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John O'CarrollBreakwater XX, 2020Gesso, pigment, silver, copper leaf, resin on panel34 x 29 x 2 cmJohn O'Carroll, Breakwater XX, 2020Sold
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John O'CarrollEnergeia VIII , 2020Gesso, natural pigment, silver and gold leaf on panel95 x 200 cmBespoke steel frame
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John O'CarrollCornubia XGesso, natural pigment, silver, gold leaf, resin on panel with a bespoke steel frame180 x 92 cmBespoke steel frameJohn O'Carroll, Cornubia XSold
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John O'CarrollZephyr V, 2021Gesso, natural pigment, silver and copper leaf on panel97 x 86 cm
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John O'CarrollPlace II, 2018Gesso, natural pigment, silver and copper leaf on panel140 cm (d)
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John O'CarrollPlace III , 2018Gesso, natural pigment, silver and copper leaf on panel140 cm (d)
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John O'CarrollPlace V, 2018Gesso, natural pigment, silver and copper leaf on panel220 x 64 cmBespoke steel frame