Moss Carroll

Painter and printmaker, born in Cardiff in 1994.

Inspired by his journeys through different natural environments, Moss Carroll deeply explores the landscape and the forces of nature. His work stems from his firsthand experiences. He undertakes extensive journeys on foot, hitchhiking and camping, and documents his findings in watercolours and drawings. This method of slow travelling, led by the vagaries of chance, feeds into the poetic narrative of his work.

His work explores the sublime nature of his experiences and astounding moments of beauty he witnesses. Studying light, the elements and temporal changes, he peels back the surface to provide a vision beyond the physical. Materialising his experience into semi-abstract painting and printmaking work he aligns his findings in nature with stories of the cultures he passes through combining them to create a mythology of the land and the elements.

In printmaking he works in an original blend of monoprint and chine collé. He harnesses the potential of layering transparencies, fluidly utilising the subtle and delicate textures obtainable in printmaking. His work, deeper than the landscapes themselves, iridescent and breathing, hints at the interwoven complexity of nature and our existence as a part of it.

Utilising innovative approaches to mixed media watercolour and ink painting his multi-layered abstract paintings push the boundaries of their mediums through experimental chemical processes. Their expressive and symbolic values delve into the unconscious and search to unearth motifs which induce a primal response.

His works offer a window into what lies beyond our material boundaries. They discuss our transient connection with the earth, and reflect something of the transcendence of human experience.

Working between Italy and Wales, he exhibits in the UK and internationally. He has studied under Scholarship at Fondazione il Bisonte in Florence and has work in the National Library of Wales collection.