Painting is by all means 'seeing', ... what needs to be seen, what needs to be felt, what needs to be 'lifted' in colours and shapes...

Caroline Hübner studied fine arts at the Academy of the Arts in Sint-Niklaas and literature at the University of Antwerp. Being the daughter of a pianist and a ballerina, she grew up in a world of visual art, dance, music and poetry whereas the tender perspective on life never failed to look beyond the obvious.

This would translate itself in her later work as a visual artist and writer, where capturing the lives of lost ones in eulogies as mere outstretched poems and perform them at funerals by herself would become a tender caress of death and the people surrounding it.

As where theatre and dance were an everlasting inspiration, this influence still shows in the evaporating figures of her paintings, as it does in the longing for what might be unreachable, either towards ‘the other world’ or the missing of fulfilment of a life yet to be lived, not ended. As death creates a state of solitude too, this emotion is often occurs in her work as does the grief of having ‘to let go’.

Her work has been shown in different galleries throughout Belgium, Ireland and now the UK in joining the biomedical artists group where life and ‘beyond-life’ is being put in yet an all different perspective again.

at the Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat, october 2010, 'inhaling' the landscape, Joanna and me chasing the light...

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