Caroline Navarro

Caroline was born in Guernsey in the Channel Islands and brought up in Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean. Her wish to become an internationally acclaimed artist developed after she followed a Bachelor in Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney. She was chosen to take part in a mural project as part of the Sydney Olympics which led her to be chosen as the artist to represent Malta as part of the CHOGM (Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting) in 2002.  

Subsequently she exhibited her Malta-inspired paintings at the United Nations in New York, central London at the Commonwealth Society and Harrods as part of the Malta Week in 2012. Caroline formed part of an artistic response to Domestic Violence in Paris at the Montmatre Town Hall in 2010 and a collective on female paintings by females in Seville Spain the year before. In 2008 Caroline was chosen to represent Malta as part of an Art Symposium in Pescara Italy where this work hangs in Pescara Contemporary Art Museum.

As part of Caroline´s artistic career she has managed her own gallery in the Hilton project and completed trophies commissioned for the Rolex Middle Sea Race in 2005 & 2006 plus worked as part of the special effects department for the blockbuster 'Troy'. She has taken part in several art auctions at the Ansbacher Private Bank in London in 2007 & the Malta President´s Charity Art Auction the year after.
In 2017 the Ambassador of Malta to Italy chose to exhibit a piece of Caroline´s work she owns at the Quirinale Rome. At the same time Caroline was part of a collective show on maritime- inspired paintings & photography organised by the Malta-French embassy at the Galerie de Lices in St. Tropez at the same time as the start of the prestigious yacht race the “Trophee Baillie de Suffren”. Caroline formed part of another collective “Sea She Sees” at the Maritime Museum in Malta in line with the Valletta European Capital of Culture in 2018.

​In 2018 Caroline chose to live in the Balearic Islands, Ibiza & Mallorca, for 2 years where she consulted on specialised yachting projects while at the same time created a variety of acrylic paintings for her solo show which took place at the Hotel Saratoga in October 2021. Prior to that she took part in Nit de l´Art, Palma Art Contemporani in 2021. 

​​Beginning January 2020 Caroline´s true sense of adventure took her out to live in Lisbon Portugal where she can now be found painting many of the colourful city sights or as part of a nude life drawing session. Caroline is part of the Lisbon Artist Circle.

Most recently Caroline is enjoying the new medium of Japanese pen & watercolour wash which has allowed her to be more immediate and therefore very suitable for her transient lifestyle whether capturing many Caribbean moments on her most recent sailing trip or while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Caroline has an ongoing performance taking place in her studio where people come to get their figure drawn creating an exciting new niche which fits her character & painting style very well!
 
Caroline´s works are very much about the artist herself, effervescent, cheerful and full of vibrant colour, revealing her true love for life. 
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Caroline´s works are very much like the artist herself, effervescent, cheerful and full of vibrant colour, revealing her true love for life. She can best be described as a Neo Expressionist painter inspired by the French Romantic painter Gericault, German & Austrian Expressionists Nolde, Munch & Kokoshka, the Fauvist Dufy and of course Van Gogh!
 
Caroline’s works can be found in several public & private collections in London, Australia, Malta, Spain, France, Germany, Croatia, Prague, Slovakia, Switzerland, Japan, Holland, and the US.