About Caroline 

For as long she can remember, Caroline Fuss has always been teeming with ideas fed by a vivid imagination. During her childhood she used to spend hours alone in the backyard playing in a world of her own creation… or hammering and sawing away cheerfully in the basement with her father’s tools, building something she had envisioned and relishing the sense of fulfilment she had from working with her hands. Ironically, painting was only peripherally present for her while growing-up. Although she never drew a picture or touched a paintbrush until much later, her mother, an avid amateur classical oil and watercolour painter, encouraged her during her teens to visit museums and galleries with her. They would have long discussions about painters, technique, medium, colour, etc…. Still, despite the creative visual-arts atmosphere, her natural talent for music and penchant for all things theatrical prevailed, and she pursued classical singing during her late teens and at University. After completing her musical studies, she sang in many French opera houses and eventually landed a chorus engagement with the Zurich Opera in 2000, in which city she has made her home ever since.

Singing and acting on stage is a great pleasure, but after several years of it, she felt a pressing desire to reconnect with her creativity. Taking her time to explore new possibilities, she noticed that painting was emerging as one of the ways. Previously only her mother’s domain, painting suddenly became very real to her. She will never forget the day in August 2006 when, following her instincts, she used oil colour for the first time. She knew then that she had finally found her true calling as an artist. She immediately began taking courses and working in her studio every day.

About the process

Caroline is a collector of images, lights, colours, textures, structures, materials, sounds, smells, etc… She is fascinated by broken, worn and torn materials, fading colour, paint flakes on walls, abandoned buildings. Working in series permits her to deepen her exploration of a subject. Guided by her subconscious, she surrenders her fingers and brushes to an unveiling of buried and shrouded experiences. Repeated working of the materials and multiplying of layers, results in encounters of spontaneous, sudden, and random minglings on the canvas, which become a constant source of further inspiration.