Carol Hodder has always been drawn to wild places. Raised on a farm on the north side of Cork City, there was a strong emphasis on the marking of seasons, through ploughing, harrowing, planting and harvesting. These earthy beginnings, coupled with time spent every summer in a house in the Kerry mountains without running water or electricity, continue to underscore her artistic direction. Periods spent in remote places such as Pouch Cove, Newfoundland and a recent residency in the North West of Iceland has lead Hodder to recognise a link between those formative encounters and her attraction towards raw elemental places where she investigates experiences of transient light, memory and place.
The expressive, semi-abstract paintings in this, the artist’s second solo exhibition at Solomon, are a sensory response to place, atmosphere and visceral experience.
Carol Hodder
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Carol HodderFacing Northoil on canvas120 x 150cm -
Carol HodderSkyline ioil on canvas121 x 142cm€ 8,000.00
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Carol HodderThawoil on canvas100 x 120cm
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Carol HodderNight Harbouroil on canvas100 x 100cm
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Carol HodderNight Portaloil on canvas75 x 90cm
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Carol HodderBrunioil on canvas76 x 90cm
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Carol HodderMudlarkoil on canvas60 x 60cm
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Carol HodderPortaloil on canvas60 x 60cm
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Carol HodderIce Field iiioil on canvas40x50cmSolomon Fine Art - Carol Hodder, Ice Field iii€ 2,000.00
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Carol HodderIce Field ivoil on canvas40x50cmSolomon Fine Art - Carol Hodder, Ice Field iv€ 2,000.00
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Carol HodderSkyline iioil on canvas40 x 50cm
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Carol HodderSkyline iiioil on canvas40 x 50cm
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Carol HodderSkyline ivoil on canvas40 x 50cmSolomon Fine Art - Carol Hodder, Skyline iv€ 2,000.00
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Carol HodderComing Rainoil on canvas40 x 50cm
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Carol HodderSea-Plain ioil on canvas25 x 40 cm
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Carol HodderSea-Plain iioil on canvas25 x 40 cm
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Carol HodderSea-Plain iiioil on canvas25 x 40cmSolomon Fine Art - Carol Hodder, Sea-Plain iii€ 1,200.00
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Carol HodderSea-Plain ivoil on canvas25 x 40cm
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Carol HodderÞórdísoil on canvas30 x 30cm€ 950.00
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Carol HodderIce Field ioil on canvas25 x 30cm
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Carol HodderIce Field iioil on canvas25 x 30cm
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Carol HodderSleeping Giant (Huldufólk)oil on canvas25 x 30cm€ 850.00
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VIEW ON A WALL
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DOWNLOAD THE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE PDF
CATALOGUE INTRODUCTION (excerpt): by Mark Ewart
Carol Hodder’s paintings rarely announce their intent in advance, arriving to her instead without fanfare and in their own good time. This means that a painting will usually start without a definite plan and will change and evolve until there is some form of resolution that she can live with. The process remains transitory, but the artist has learned to be patient and to welcome a finished painting like a long-lost friend.
Fleeting influences accumulate incrementally, gently guiding the composition as it emerges and recedes and emerges again from resonant paint textures. Indeed, the artwork almost becomes corporeal by the physical weight of the paint which has accumulated on the canvas - time itself becomes the touchstone that accrues proliferating brushstrokes. Correspondingly, an under-painted canvas would somehow seem like cheating, conspiring against emotions and the senses infused within the impasto.
The beauty within these paintings comes from the fact that the artist has spent quality time with them – in some cases months, years or even on one rare occasion, two decades. She coaxes them to emerge from limbo, willing them to yield to a flourish of colour or the patinated texture that finally unites an image. Importantly, the time taken to ponder and reflect has for this exhibition, allowed Hodder to make some important decisions. Long- standing preoccupations finally emerge from her memory and subconscious and manifest as figurative motifs and architectural structures imbued with an increasingly metaphorical presence.
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