Donated to St Jude International Gala for Hope- 2018
Many Mediterranean and Middle East cultures see early almond blossoms are symbol of Hope. Hues of pinkish -white flowers flood the Mediterranean scenery as a signal of spring approaching.
Swallows have often been emblem (symbol) of Hope since they are the first birds to appear after the harsh winters.
The red box with ribbons is a representation of Pandora Box. According to Greek mythology, Pandora opened the box releasing all miseries and pain for humankind: only Hope remained laying at the bottom once she closed the box again.
Hope- Expectation. The hourglass in the painting is just starting, a denotation (indication) of strong and confident expectation of future rewarded.
Interview by Jenn Griffin- January 2016
First, tell me about the piece you’re working on. What is it? Did you choose it or was it selected for you by the gala’s co-chairs? If you’d chosen it, what prompted you to pick it?
. I went with some fellow artists and my friends Jill Behrens and Jackie Impey to Restore; we glanced through the store and considered several pieces of furniture as alternatives. We enjoyed it very much and shared our thoughts about each piece’s creative possibilities. I found a coffee table suitable for its smooth and plain surface. I thought a medallion with Acanthus leaves would go very well on the round table.
I always liked acanthus leaves which are included in the classical Greece motifs and designs, it symbolizes life endurance.
The acanthus plant grows throughout much of the Mediterranean region. Its deeply lobed large leaves appear in many ancient sculptures, especially on top of columns in the Greek style called Corinthian.
Legends says that after a young girl's death, her nurse placed her possessions in a basket near her tomb. An acanthus plant grew around the basket and enclosed it. One day the sculptor Callimachus noticed this arrangement and was inspired to design the column ornament.
The design was also thoroughly used during Roman, Renascence and Victorian times.
When did you begin working on the piece, and how much time have you devoted to it; what’s the creative process been like?
I began working on the piece in mid-November. Since the design includes symmetry and repetition, drawing was an especially important part of the process of creating it. Since the drawing was so intricate, everything had to be geometrically calculated during the drawing step. However, once I began painting, I added personality to each leaf and stretched past the calculated boundaries of my drawing.
Why do you think you were selected as one of the artists to participate in this project?
I’ve been collaborating with Habitat for Humanity for 3 years now. In the past I transformed doors into pieces of art for their yearly galas.
II thoroughly enjoy working for them, and I guess they are pleased with my outcome!
What does it mean to you to have been chosen?
I love to donate my talent to such a noble cause as Habitat for Humanity. It makes me happy to know that my art is being used for a greater good.
What experience do you have; what kind of work do you do?
My mom sent me to my first art lesson when I was 7. Since then, I’ve been enjoying art as a nonstop journey.
8 Years ago, I launched an art-based business “Artistically Carolina”. Through it I provide an array of artistic services from art clases for adults & kids, residential & commercial murals, painting children spaces, hand painted furniture, art on canvas and ornamental designs.
Lately I have been focusing mainly on fine art. Acrylic and pastels are my favorite mediums, I like the freshness of pastels, it helps to keep my work light and simple.
The Inspiration for my works comes from nature, especially by the incredible world of flowers. “I think that the elements of design are best depicted by nature through flowers. They show us a great variety of shapes, textures, tones and amazing colors.
In addition, I enjoy drawing and painting the human figure, including people doing spontaneous daily activities. I am also amazed by different and unique cultures and architectures, which I like to capture in my artwork.
What do you hope the response is to your efforts in reimagining this piece?
I Hope that one person will fall in love with the table and enjoy it as part of their everyday life, and that they feel inspired by my design and the charitable cause they helped fund by purchasing my art.
First, tell me about the piece you’re working on. What is it? Did you choose it or was it selected for you by the gala’s co-chairs? If you’d chosen it, what prompted you to pick it?
. I went with some fellow artists and my friends Jill Behrens and Jackie Impey to Restore; we glanced through the store and considered several pieces of furniture as alternatives. We enjoyed it very much and shared our thoughts about each piece’s creative possibilities. I found a coffee table suitable for its smooth and plain surface. I thought a medallion with Acanthus leaves would go very well on the round table.
I always liked acanthus leaves which are included in the classical Greece motifs and designs, it symbolizes life endurance.
The acanthus plant grows throughout much of the Mediterranean region. Its deeply lobed large leaves appear in many ancient sculptures, especially on top of columns in the Greek style called Corinthian.
Legends says that after a young girl's death, her nurse placed her possessions in a basket near her tomb. An acanthus plant grew around the basket and enclosed it. One day the sculptor Callimachus noticed this arrangement and was inspired to design the column ornament.
The design was also thoroughly used during Roman, Renascence and Victorian times.
When did you begin working on the piece, and how much time have you devoted to it; what’s the creative process been like?
I began working on the piece in mid-November. Since the design includes symmetry and repetition, drawing was an especially important part of the process of creating it. Since the drawing was so intricate, everything had to be geometrically calculated during the drawing step. However, once I began painting, I added personality to each leaf and stretched past the calculated boundaries of my drawing.
Why do you think you were selected as one of the artists to participate in this project?
I’ve been collaborating with Habitat for Humanity for 3 years now. In the past I transformed doors into pieces of art for their yearly galas.
II thoroughly enjoy working for them, and I guess they are pleased with my outcome!
What does it mean to you to have been chosen?
I love to donate my talent to such a noble cause as Habitat for Humanity. It makes me happy to know that my art is being used for a greater good.
What experience do you have; what kind of work do you do?
My mom sent me to my first art lesson when I was 7. Since then, I’ve been enjoying art as a nonstop journey.
8 Years ago, I launched an art-based business “Artistically Carolina”. Through it I provide an array of artistic services from art clases for adults & kids, residential & commercial murals, painting children spaces, hand painted furniture, art on canvas and ornamental designs.
Lately I have been focusing mainly on fine art. Acrylic and pastels are my favorite mediums, I like the freshness of pastels, it helps to keep my work light and simple.
The Inspiration for my works comes from nature, especially by the incredible world of flowers. “I think that the elements of design are best depicted by nature through flowers. They show us a great variety of shapes, textures, tones and amazing colors.
In addition, I enjoy drawing and painting the human figure, including people doing spontaneous daily activities. I am also amazed by different and unique cultures and architectures, which I like to capture in my artwork.
What do you hope the response is to your efforts in reimagining this piece?
I Hope that one person will fall in love with the table and enjoy it as part of their everyday life, and that they feel inspired by my design and the charitable cause they helped fund by purchasing my art.
Carolina Dalmas presents “Doorways to a Future on Peace”
This acrylic composition contains elements from around the world that symbolize peace:
This acrylic composition contains elements from around the world that symbolize peace:
- The olive branch was a peace symbol in the Roman and Greek cultures.
- The white dove and olive branch was used by early Christians as an allegory of peace.
- In 1934, a British peace organization, joined in distributing white poppies "as a pledge to peace that war must not happen again"
- The paper crane, a traditional symbol of luck in Japan, was popularized as a peace symbol by the story of Sadako Sasaki , a girl who died because of the atomic bomb.
- The peace symbols
- S-L-M for the Hebrew word "Shalom" and the Arabic "Salaam"
- The tree is a traditional African symbol, representing peace, cooperation and equality.
(L-R): Jenny Wright, WWAF director, Allison Hulett, MOW executive director and Carolina Dalmas, artist with Woodlands Art League.
ls on Wheels unveils arts festival murals Community Report
Published 6:06 am, Monday, April 6, 2015
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/woodlands/news/article/Meals-on-Wheels-unveils-arts-festival-murals-9656846.php
“Then, The Woodlands Art League supervised a children’s art area where the kids painted these beautiful little sunflower blocks for our Meals on Wheels clients. They absolutely loved them. We got a lot of thank you notes expressing gratitude for the gesture,” Hulett said.
Another art piece will be created for Meals on Wheels at this year’s festival, set for Friday, April 10, through Sunday, April 12, 2015, along The Woodlands Waterway and in Town Green Park.
The 2015 community art project will be a sculpture piece, designed and created by Carolina Dalmas and Abby Salazar, of The Woodlands Art League
Published 6:06 am, Monday, April 6, 2015
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/woodlands/news/article/Meals-on-Wheels-unveils-arts-festival-murals-9656846.php
- Meals on Wheels unveils arts festival murals Community Report
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WWAF 2014 Community Art Collaborators Jenny Wright, WWAF Director, Allison Hulett, MOW Exec Director and Carolina Dalmas, Artist with Woodlands Art League show off a mural, part of “Woodlands Alive,” a ... more“Woodlands Alive,” a two-panel art mural designed by Carolina Dalmas and Lauren Combs, of The Woodlands Art League, and painted by hundreds of guests at The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival last year, has been installed at the Meals on Wheels location at The Friendship Center’s building in The Woodlands. The collaborative creation was donated to The Friendship Center as part of The Woodlands Waterway Arts Council’s continuing program to create and share works of art with community organizations. Every other year, a community organization is selected as the recipient for art pieces created at two consecutive festivals.
“The art created by The Woodlands Art League at the event last year benefited our Meals on Wheels program in two very touching ways,” said Allison Hulett, executive director of The Friendship Center. “Two murals were painted at the festival for us to hang outside of our Meals on Wheels dock where the volunteers pick up meals to be delivered. The fun thing about it is that they were painted by many community members at the festival, young and old, so it has the ‘fingerprints of the community’ on it, so to speak.
“Then, The Woodlands Art League supervised a children’s art area where the kids painted these beautiful little sunflower blocks for our Meals on Wheels clients. They absolutely loved them. We got a lot of thank you notes expressing gratitude for the gesture,” Hulett said.
Another art piece will be created for Meals on Wheels at this year’s festival, set for Friday, April 10, through Sunday, April 12, 2015, along The Woodlands Waterway and in Town Green Park.
The 2015 community art project will be a sculpture piece, designed and created by Carolina Dalmas and Abby Salazar, of The Woodlands Art League - WWAF 2014 Community Art Collaborators Jenny Wright, WWAF Director, Allison Hulett, MOW Exec Director and Carolina Dalmas, Artist with Woodlands Art League show off a mural, part of “Woodlands Alive,” a ... more “Woodlands Alive,” a two-panel art mural designed by Carolina Dalmas and Lauren Combs, of The Woodlands Art League, and painted by hundreds of guests at The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival last year, has been installed at the Meals on Wheels location at The Friendship Center’s building in The Woodlands. The collaborative creation was donated to The Friendship Center as part of The Woodlands Waterway Arts Council’s continuing program to create and share works of art with community organizations. Every other year, a community organization is selected as the recipient for art pieces created at two consecutive festivals.
“Then, The Woodlands Art League supervised a children’s art area where the kids painted these beautiful little sunflower blocks for our Meals on Wheels clients. They absolutely loved them. We got a lot of thank you notes expressing gratitude for the gesture,” Hulett said.
Another art piece will be created for Meals on Wheels at this year’s festival, set for Friday, April 10, through Sunday, April 12, 2015, along The Woodlands Waterway and in Town Green Park.
The 2015 community art project will be a sculpture piece, designed and created by Carolina Dalmas and Abby Salazar, of The Woodlands Art League
Habitat for Humanity- 2014 Art Parade." Late Summer arrangement"- Acrylic
Late Summer Arrangement
Carolina Dalmas
I feel a strong connection with nature, especially with the incredible world of the flowers.
Elements of design are best depicted by nature through flowers. They show us a great variety of shapes, textures, tones, and amazing colors.
Every week my husband indulges me with a bouquet of flowers which adorns our living room and accompanies our lives with color and beauty.
I always take pictures with different lighting and from numerous angles, and then I store them in a “projects” folder in my computer to be painted in the future.
When I saw the door, I thought of a picture I took long ago, and envisioned the elongated design of the sunflower base which has been waiting for the right canvas to be painted on.
Carolina Dalmas
I feel a strong connection with nature, especially with the incredible world of the flowers.
Elements of design are best depicted by nature through flowers. They show us a great variety of shapes, textures, tones, and amazing colors.
Every week my husband indulges me with a bouquet of flowers which adorns our living room and accompanies our lives with color and beauty.
I always take pictures with different lighting and from numerous angles, and then I store them in a “projects” folder in my computer to be painted in the future.
When I saw the door, I thought of a picture I took long ago, and envisioned the elongated design of the sunflower base which has been waiting for the right canvas to be painted on.