The paintings for Carol Hodder’s exhibition Between Storms, show an enduring fascination with paint application and the expressive properties of texture and colour. But the work also shows the ever-increasing attachment with personal narrative, that discretely underscores painterly preoccupations. Memories are aligned with physical journeys to places that resonate with emotion, and in turn, spark symbolic imagery that function as metaphors for time and place. For Hodder, inscape is just as important as landscape. Mark Ewart, 2022
Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host a solo exhibition of new work by artist Carol Hodder. The expressive, semi-abstract oil paintings in this collection are a sensory response to the artist’s experiences of raw, elemental landscapes and transient light, and a demonstration of Hodder’s dedication to the expressive properties and possibilities of paint.
Touching on memories of childhood fishing trips on Loch Derriana, Co. Kerry – “weather changes between the mountains, the black choppy water, that sense of fear and urgency, and on reaching sanctuary, the rain pelting on the corrugated roof” – and recent journeys to North West Iceland with dark winter days and inclement weather, Hodder explores the link between those formative encounters and her attraction towards wild, elemental places which inspire a particular visceral feeling of memory and place.
Carol Hodder: Between Storms
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Carol HodderSwelloil on canvas120 x 150cm€ 8,800.00Courtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderBetween Stormsoil on canvas122 x 152cmCourtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderSwimmersoil on canvas122 x 122cm
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Carol HodderBetween Storms IIoil on canvas100 x 120cmCourtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderRough Weatheroil on canvas100 x 120cm
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Carol HodderClearingoil on canvas75 x 90cm
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Carol HodderBealach Oisinoil on canvas75 x 90cm
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Carol HodderLight Rainoil on canvas60 x 60cm
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Carol HodderTide Lineoil on canvas50 x 60cm
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Carol HodderSwimmeroil on canvas60 x 50cm
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Carol HodderLava Fieldsoil on canvas50 x 60cmCourtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderIce Fieldoil on canvas45 x 60cmCourtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderCoastal Rainoil on canvas40 x 65cm
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Carol HodderPast Remainsoil on canvas40 x 50cm
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Carol HodderDescending Weather IIoil on canvas36 x 58cm
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Carol HodderPast Remains IIoil on canvas36 x 58cm
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Carol HodderDescending Weatheroil on canvas36 x 58cm
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Carol HodderQuarry Moonoil on canvas36 x 58cm
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Carol HodderLake Fogoil on canvas40 x 50cmCourtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderPortaloil on canvas40 x 40cmCourtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderDescending Weather IVoil on canvas25 x 40cm
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Carol HodderDescending Weather IIIoil on canvas25 x 40cm
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Carol HodderDescending Weather Voil on canvas25 x 40cmCourtesy of Solomon Fine ArtCopyright The Artist
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Carol HodderFlood Fieldoil on canvas26 x 31cm
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Carol HodderSwimmer IIoil on canvas30 x 25cm
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REVIEWS / PRESS / MEDIA
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CAROL HODDER: What Lies Beneath
Niall MacMonagle, Sunday Independent September 11, 2022Inspired by the mizzle and mountains of KerrY CAROL HODDER Rough Weather Though Carol Hodder's work features places, she has no particular place in mind when she begins a painting.... -
IRISH ARTS REVIEW: Carol Hodder
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GLOSS MAGAZINE: Artistic License
Interview with Carol Hodder by PENNY MCCORMICK September 2, 2020What is the significance of the title of your new exhibition “Facing North”? I was looking for a title that could sum up the work I had been doing before... -
CAROL HODDER IRISH TIMES REVIEW
Aidan Dunne September 11, 2018IRISH TIMES 11 September 2018 CAROL HODDER 'Inflow' Review by Aidan Dunne Metaphoric potential Carol Hodder’s textural paintings are heavily worked – not over-worked, but built up in many tides...
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