“After almost two years of being represented by Trinity Galleries in Saint John NB, I finally met the enthusiastic and passionate owner Beth McGloan-Asimakos
The gallery is in a beautiful heritage building located in Uptown Saint John, in the Trinity Royal Preservation Area.
At the opening, I also had the pleasure of meeting Mayor Donna Reardon and chatting with collectors who own some of my paintings.” - Karole Marois
"I am intrigued with the concept that water has a memory. The water carries evidence of every touch, every breath of all lifeforms that comes in contact with it. This trail we humans leave behind flows downstream towards a sea filled with memories.
As a figurative artist, I am passionate about finding ways to express our profound emotional connection with water. In the last several years, I have been experimenting with transparency, where the waterscape can be seen through the figures in my paintings. Transparent figures are meant to express our interconnectedness with water, but they also evoke themes of memory, longing, spirituality, transience, loss and hope.
The figures in my work are based on people who share my life, but sometimes they are drawn from memory or purely imagined. I paint with acrylics on preferably large formats. Working large while standing up allows me to create flow and rhythm in the wind and waves. The horizon line is an important element in most of my waterscapes. It not only adds stability and depth to the composition, but it also stands for infinite possibilities.
Water is therapeutic, it is healing. It is the reason I moved my studio to the shores of Lake Ontario. Water has become the central theme of my body of work, and perhaps an obsession." – Karole Marois
