Caroline Tomlinson | Birds of a Feather

The well know English proverb ‘Birds of a feather flock together’ was the starting point for this hand-finished foiled edition of 50, one colour, A3 screen prints. The proverbs meaning can roughly be described as ‘that typically humans of similar type, interest, personality, character, or other distinctive attribute tend to mutually associate’. It is this concept that the print’s creator, Caroline Tomlinson, wanted to explore using a visual play on symmetry by creating a mirror image. In the piece, Birds of a Feather, the two birds are similar, but not identical; a celebration of finding a balanced, equal union. Caroline describes it as “a piece to celebrate the coming together, to then fly high.”

Using her work as a means to not only communicate, but also to heal, Birds of a Feather forms part of an ongoing series in which Caroline has been exploring motifs that are meaningful to her story, whilst she still tries to make sense of it. She states; “It’s far bigger and messier than I have shared through my work so far, and yet with each new piece I feel a little braver to lean into this further and expose a little more of myself.”  Caroline intends to continue creating these new editions whilst exploring symbolic references and drawing from her past, visually capturing it through her imagination. She comments; “I wanted to reinvent my working practice through using no visual references (as I normally would in my commercial work) and allow myself time and space to create and capture a, or rather my, visual world this way.”

Caroline concludes; “Travel changes us, we rarely return the same version of ourselves, there are often ups and downs but those are what make a journey not only memorable but the making of us. A growing up into us, a bloom, an opening up into a new chapter.”

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