Hey everyone,
My name is Caroline Vincent, and I'm a French painter (since 2022), photographer (since 2013) and writer (since always?). Above all, I'm a self taught multipassonate artist always searching for new mediums, new creative ways to tell my story.
Art is all my life. From my work, down to my hobbies (movies and shows, from which I can't live without), art is every part of my life.
From the outside, my different styles and series may seem all over the place. I assume that choice as I can't imprison myself creating the same kind of art over and over again. I need variety and I need to pursue wholeheartedly my endless curiosity.
However, there's something connecting all my different artwork together, it's the storytelling aspect of it…
More than a painter, an analog photographer or a writer or whatever else I'll call myself in the future, I see myself as a storyteller. In fact, I often feel like I'm a creative idea factory… I can't be put in a box and just repeat the same things forever. It's suffocating for me. Hence the urge to tell my story through different styles and crafts.
Indeed, every art project I do is about self expression. I want to share my joys and fears and talk about how I'm moving through a world that doesn't align with my political and ecological values.
But there's also another thread linking all that I do together. It's the themes. Indeed, my main inspirations are almost always mental health (from my own to the collective mental health of our societies and how they impact each other), Nature (through all of its aspects, be it ecology or the childlike wonder I have towards nature) and, mainly through my photo, Movies as well. And all these subjects influence each other creating a vast network of different stories distinct yet similar which help me find my place in the world.
Therefore, each craft has a specific purpose.
Painting helps me regulate my emotions and find stillness in an overwhelming loud world. It's a craft where I can explore my different brain wiring and where I'm in search of the perfect balance between the autistic side of me in need of order and the adhd part of me in need of chaos. It's a craft where I get to reconnect to the innocence, playfulness and purity of my childlike self making it my favorite creative process to engage in.
Taking photographs, depending on the projects I'm working on, be it my travel pics or my tribute to Cinema Project, helps me to either ground to myself and Nature or preserve the beauty around me forever so I never forget how life, in spite of its many downs, can be blissful.
And as far as my writing goes, engaging in that craft helps me make sense of the world around me or what I'm going through so I can navigate life better and thus live more peacefuly on this weird planet. For now I'm writing just for me (an autofiction) but would love to make something out of it someday.
Being a late diagnosed autistic woman with adhd is also important to mention as the way I understand myself and the world, and the way I approach my art is intrinsically linked to my different brain wiring.
The need to constantly move from one craft and style to another is a very adhd thing for instance… Painting is stimming which is a very autistic and adhd thing too.
But it's obviously more complex than that and though lots of aspects of what and how I create is linked to my neurodivergence, I'm above all else just a human being using art to find more joy in life hoping that while you look at my work you find relief and wisdom and beauty in it as well!
