Latest News: July 2010
Art Project in Hertfordshire
Sad that the portraiture project at Bassingbourn Village College has come to an end - but some fantastic results (and memories!). Well done all.
Latest News: May 2010
Art in the Community
I am currently supporting local young people in Cambridgeshire with an exciting portraiture project and have been offered the chance to become a trustee for a wellbeing through the arts charity
Latest News: Apr 2010
Art Tutorship and Therapy
I hope to be offering some local tutoring/therapy in the Cambridge area in the very near future. Please contact me if you would like to develop as an artist or would just like to paint in the company of others.
Latest News: Apr 2010
BBC World Service home to Rohani Portrait
I am delighted to announce that my portrait of murdered journalist Absul Samad Rohani now hangs at the BBC Word Service at Bush House in London. I travelled to London to present the painting to the Afghan Team a few weeks ago - and hope that it brings comfort, honours Rohani's memory and that the light in his eyes (seen as I painted him) continues to inspire.
Latest News: Mar 2010
Seeking Portrait Subjects
In return you can keep the portrait. The only catch is that you must have a meaningful reason for wanting the portrait done (I can work from sittings or photographs/memories). Please use the contact pages to drop me a line.
Latest News: Jan 2010
BP Portrait Award
Paint is finally dry on my BP portrait award entry. Unsure of success in the competition, but not unsure how right this is - for so many reasons.
Latest News: Nov 2009
War Poets and Portraiture
Storm At The Arts have taken the collection to Arts Shows in Suffolk and Surrey over recent weeks and they now head up to their new gallery in Norfolk. To view high resolution images of the portraits and from
the London Frontline Club show visit FlickR. Meanwhile I am wrestling with a portrait of a British Lord!
Latest News: Sept 2009
Cambridge Dates Announced: War Poets of Today - Correspondents in Conflict Exhibition
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collection will preview at Storm At The Arts in Cambridge on Friday 2 October and will run throughout the month. To view high resolution images of the portraits and from
the London Frontline Club show visit FlickR.
Latest News: Sept 2009
Proud to be from the Royston Community
This collection of local photographs have been turned into postcards, hopefully to be exhibited locally in the near future.
Latest News: June 2009
Portraiture Projects
About to start work on two exciting new portraits - one of a prominent British activist/political figure, another of a celebrity with a fascinating life story. Contact caroline.jaine (at ) gmail.com if you have ideas or are able to provide interesting and inspiring subjects.
Latest News: May 2009
Exhibition in Sri Lanka
Currently showing at Lunaganga - Photos and art work created during a field visit to the late Geoffrey Bawa's home in Bentota, Sri Lanka in August 2002 under the mentorship of renowned artist Anoma Wijewardene
Latest News: April 2009
Newcomers Project Soon to be piloted in South Cambridgeshire/Cambridge, Caroline will get to know three people who have moved to the area in the past year and paint their portraits. The people of Cambridge have the second highest level of internal migration in the UK, and Caroline’s project will attempt to explore some of the positive effects of this, by spotlighting personal stories. As well as producing a thought provoking triptych to exhibit locally, The Newcomers Project hopes to partner local media and be taken into local schools and community groups. Once the pilot has been carried out, it is hoped the project will be repeated across Britain.
Latest News: April 2009
War Poets of Today - Correspondents in Conflict
This collection of oil paintings by Caroline Jaine celebrates the spoken and the written words of the men and women who risk and sometimes sadly lose their lives in a mission to draw attention to the violent conflict that exists in this world. The subjects for these expressive portraits are a mixture of correspondents from around the world including Iraq, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, some known to the artist from her experience working in these countries, others whose moving stories have inspired.
"I was moved by the journalists I met in Iraq who presented me with decorative business cards describing themselves first and foremost as writers and poets" - Caroline Jaine
Likes British War Poets in the First World War, their work is testimony to the warfare they experience.
Unlike the War Poets their modern day cousins provide a voice not just to soldiers but to everyone caught up in violent conflict. A hundred years ago civilian casualties of war represented 5% of the total. By the end of World War I, the number had risen to 15%, but today 75% of all war-related deaths are civilian.