Carolanne Ken

Carolanne is a quiet achiever. She's very driven, but she puts her head down and she gets on with things. She also paints the story of Marililu, and she does it in a very visceral, very painterly way. She loves pushing paint around on a canvas with the brush. It’s a lot like some of those great abstract expressionists. You can just see their love of paint in what they do.

You see these beautiful areas that she's done with the brushwork of these spirals, and then those beautiful long kind of ribbons coming out from it. That's indicative of Marililu digging the cave that she lived in; etching into the earth with her digging stick. You see it just as Marililu would have carved those marks into the earth with gusto. Carolanne also has an innate sense of colour and isn’t afraid to experiment. She loves what she does and she's focused, quiet and a beautiful person - I think that comes through in her artwork.