“My goal is to have the viewer lose themselves in each drawing by creating a detailed and immersive image that transports them to a place they think they can remember, but cannot place.
I consistently try to bring two separate feelings together in my work. The first is the feeling of being a child at night in their bed, flipping through the pages of an illustrated storybook lit by low, warm light. The second is the feeling of walking alone through rich forest, and witnessing something in the flash of second that you just can’t explain.”
Carrolyn is a Canadian artist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Growing up on the west coast, she spent many rainy days exploring the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. These adventures instilled a lifelong love of nature that would stay with her forever.
After high school, Carrolyn attended Emily Carr University of Art + Design where she discovered her love for narrative illustration through artists like Maurice Sendak,Arthur Rackham and John Bauer. Carrolyn now works as a freelance illustrator in Vancouver where her work is heavily influenced by classic fairy tales, folk tales and her love for trees.