Carey Mortimer
The Absinthe Chair - buon fresco - 40 x 40cm SOLD
Wild Rose - gold leaf, bole, egg tempera on panel - 30cm x 17cm SOLD
This Hill is Hill - buon fresco on alveloam panel - 51cm x 52cm SOLD
Neronian Woman - buon fresco and oil mounted on alveolam panel - 66cm x 40cm
The Wait - gold leaf, bole, egg tempera on panel - 34cm x 30cm SOLD
The Dance III - wax, egg tempera, gold leaf on canvas - 90cm x 90cm
Bequest - egg tempera on antique chestnut door panel - 94cm x 84cm
The Dance II - egg tempera on gessoed panel - 30cm x 34cm SOLD
Forest I - wax and egg tempera on canvas - 45cm x 45cm
Forest II - buon fresco mounted on celenit panel - 43cm x 43cm SOLD
Quietude - size tempera on panel - 48cm x 52cm SOLD
Cala 'e Moro - egg tempera on gessoed canvas - 40cm x 40cm SOLD
Book of Bowls - egg tempera on Delabole slate - 39cm x 61cm
Elemental I - egg tempera on gessoed canvas - 49cm x 42cm
Elemental II - egg tempera on gessoed canvas - 49cm x 42cm
Shack - egg tempera on gessoed canvas - 70cm x 93cm SOLD
Within or Without - fresco mounted on alveolam panel - 58cm x 57cm
The Dance IV - buon fresco on alveolam panel - 119cm x 85cm
Two Bowls - botanical ink on paper - 35cm x 50cm
Alchemy - egg tempera on gessoed canvas - 31cm x 31cm
Blossom - egg tempera on gessoed canvas - 31cm x 40cm SOLD
Human Element II - fresco mounted on alveolam panel - 50cm x 50cm
The Human Element I - fresco mounted on alveolam panel - 50 x 50cm SOLD
Megan's Mountain - egg tempera on gessoed cloth - 20 x 24cm
Friscurande - size tempera on board - 42 x 48cm SOLD
Triad - egg tempera on gessoed canvas - 21 x 23cm SOLD
The Dance I - botanical ink on gessoed panel - 34 x 40cm SOLD

Discovering fresco set Carey Mortimer on her path as an artist. After graduating from City and Guilds of London Art School in 1986, she studied under Italian restorer Leonetto Tintori, who introduced her to the medium of the ancients and encouraged her to unravel it. Lime, sand, pigment, yolk . . . how to make new the alchemies of the past? Carey likes to unzip the science: fresco is painting turned to stone, egg tempera is hardening strings of protein, gold is stable and stays gold forever. First know the rules to break them. And if nature is already divine, why compete? Freed from its ordinary context, a gathered leaf / mermaid’s purse / bowl or feather can take on a different function altogether: ‘A painting is only a rearrangement of matter into another form.’ The artist as chemist of the imagination. The studio as crucible, microscope, chantry.
Past and present speak in their own ways. Alert to the languages of both, Carey blends age-old techniques and her own contemporary sensibility to create surprising visual poems. Her paintings acknowledge the difficult noise of our time, but by reminding us to see beauty they offer a healing perspective, and in doing so help restore balance.
Her work can be found in many public, private and corporate collections worldwide, including Aviva Headquarters, London; Farleigh Hungerford Castle; Firmdale Hotels, London; and Jones Day, London and New York.
Carey Mortimer has been represented by Thackeray Gallery since 1994.