Artists of CorkStop Studios
Carol Paquet
Carol Paquet was born in Zambia and raised in South Africa. She attended the College of Art in Johannesburg where she majored in Graphic Design. Carol has spent many years living abroad and has traveled widely. Cape Town, Johannesburg, Munich, London and Toronto have been her homes as has Oakland, California. She has exhibited internationally and her work is in private collections in Europe and America.
"I use nature as a source of inspiration and point of departure. I am interested in the imprint of man on the landscape and the constantly changing fields of ground as impacted by the whims of man. "
Anne Stahl
Born and raised in Germany, Stahl moved to Dublin, Ireland where she llived and studied for 12 years. In 2001 she moved to the Central Coast of California. Her work is collected internationally and has been exhibited extensively.
"Rather than re-creating a landscape on a canvas, I aim to express its essence. [...] Obviously, no single work can hope to distill the complex spirit of a landscape, much less the infinitely sophisticated ecology that sustains it. So, in order to capture this richness, I work on many paintings concurrently.
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Xenia Madison
Xenia, pronounced SUN-KNEE-UH, which is Greek for “hospitality”, is a self taught artist, life coach and mother born and raised in San Francisco. She crafts abstracted ‘scapes’ of various physical, environmental, planetary and non physical forms. In just 3 years as an artist, Xenia has garnered both national exposure and fine art gallery representation.
"My approach is ever-changing, recently moving from complete acrylic use to working with oils. The tempo is slower time-wise, yet there’s an effortless quality to oil that I was surely missing out on before. "
Julia Hickey
Julia Hickey will be working out of CorkStop Studios for 3 months starting March. She is a native of San Luis Obispo, CA. She earned a B.A. in Studio Art from Yale University in 2007 and has been working in an art related field in London, U.K. for the past couple of months.
Her paintings and prints explore the capacity of images to index violence, loss, and memory. Her works are based on both real and imagined stories of violence in her mother's home country, Guatemala, where during a 36-year civil war, it is estimated that between 100,000 to 200,000 Guatemalans were killed or "disappeared." She hopes to spend the next year exploring similar themes in Berlin.
