Carla Horlock

Bubbles Series

Carla's Bubbles series is a series based on diversity, charecterful individuals and colour.

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Ragdoll Series

Carla's Ragdoll series is a fun and playful series showing both our similarities as humans and our differences that make us individuals and how they combine to create a vibrant community.

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Carla Horlock

Carla's Bersham Studio

About Carla Horlock:

Carla Horlock (b.1966)Carla’s new art works are about love, life and laughter. They are mostly painted with oil sticks, leaving a thick impasto of oil paint. Carla has a studio based in an ex coal mining office near Wrexham, North Wales.Carla's work has picked up an audience both locally and internationally, leading to her story and artwork being shared by a number of media outlets around the world.

As a child with a hearing loss, I spent a lot of my time painting and drawing. As an adult I had lost 95% of my hearing, so I took an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator and specialised in special painting affects. I carried on with oil painting on evenings and weekends.Over 20 years ago I moved with my husband and son to North Wales then North Shropshire. I set up a business as a Ceramic restorer with the help of my husband. I also had a cochlear implant to try and help with hearing but this is only in one ear, so I am totally deaf in the other ear. After 15 successful years in business, I suddenly became ill and found out I had blood cancer.I was told I had 6 months to live without a bone marrow transplant, after 4 months they told me they had found a match with a girl in Holland. This saved my life but I spent around 6 months in hospital with complications. This is when I took to drawing again and looking at art books, as most of my time was spent in isolation.When I finally came out of hospital, I pushed myself to paint each day as something I could focus my mind on and further my interest in different styles. Since then I have exhibited and sold work in North Wales and Shropshire.