Caroline Hallat, SCA is originally from South Africa. After pursuing Graphic Design and Fine Arts at The Westminster University in England she moved to Vancouver where she spent many years, after which she moved to beautiful Kelowna.
Caroline is inspired by her surroundings, she loves warm color palettes often associated with Africa - burnt sienna’s, warm burnt umbers, oranges and alizarin crimson. Working on canvas and in 3 dimension, Caroline strives to capture the lines and flow of the human figure. She loves how gesture depicts the inner strength and beauty sustained during everyday passions and struggles.
She has worked hard to learn from the greatest visual storytellers - Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and so many other great painters. Her techniques have been adopted from Renaissance Masters. She feels their oil painting methods have stood the test of time and yield beautiful results.
Always open to new concepts, she continues to explore various aspects of painting, experimenting with composition, colour, design, acrylics and multimedia..
She is an avid global traveller and each of her amazing experiences finds expression in her work.
Her works hang in a host of private collections around the world including South Africa, Canada, UK and the USA. She was commissioned to design Spring banners and anti-graffiti utility boxes for the City of Vancouver.
She is an elected SCA member and an active member of The Federation of Canadian Artists and the Kelowna Sculpture Society.
EXHIBITIONS
- ArtBeat Vancouver - 2014 & 2015
- Gathering Place Community Centre – 2015
- Participant in Eastside Culture Crawl – 2015
- Winner of Battle of the Brush - live painting competition - January 2016
- Private collections in: South Africa, North America and United Kingdom
- Gathering Place Community Centre - April 2016
- Battle of the Brush - live painting competition runner up - January 2017
- Federation of Canadian Artists - Bloom Exhibition - March 2017
- Artists of Kerrisdale juried show - Views & Visions - April 2017
- Gathering Place Community Centre - May 2017
- Federation of Canadian Artists - Active Members Exhibition - January 2018
- Exhibited at Fashion Week - March 2018
- Federation of Canadian Artists - Bloom Exhibition - March 2018
- Artists of Kerrisdale community show - April 2018
- Battle of the Brush - Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam - April 2018
- Federation of Canadian Artists - Go Figure Exhibition - May 2018
- Federation of Canadian Artists - Landscape Exhibition - June 2018
- Silk Gallery Port Moody - Floribunda Exhibition - July - October 2018
- Commissioned artwork for Movie Production - Good Boys - July 2018
- Federation of Canadian Artists - Bloom Exhibition - March 2019
- Federation of Canadian Artists - Landscape Exhibition - May 2019
- Central Okanagan Federation of Canadian Artists - Autumn Gallery - November 2019
- Federation of Canadian Artists - 2020 Social Distancing Exhibition - April 2020
- Federation of Canadian Artists - 2020 Animalis Exhibition - April 2020
- Central Okanagan Federation of Canadian Artists - TNSC - September 2020 (Honourable Mention Award)
- Central Okanagan Federation of Canadian Artists - The Almost Spring Gallery Exhibition - April 2021 (Honourable Mention)
- Society of Canadian Artists - Open International Juried Exhibition - March 2021
- Central Okanagan Federation of Canadian Artists - Peachland Oasis May 2022
- Grizzli Winery - Art in the Park Feature Artist - June 2023
- Central Okanagan Federation of Canadian Artists - Peachland Oasis July 2023