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Carolyn
Frances
"Creating is the life force."
"The power of creating, for me, is a constant flow."
"I see the process of creating as a way of seeing, feeling,
a continuous flow of spirit, both within the dream and wake
realities. It is a part of nurturing the spirit's wholeness."
Well schooled in the visual arts, Carolyn Frances is a graduate
of the Boston Museum school of Fine Arts and Tufts University,
specializing in painting and print making. Carolyn also traveled
and studied in Japan forming a thesis on Japanese architecture.
Carolyn has shown her paintings, and more recent three dimensional
work, in juried exhibits at the Boston Museum, the Albany
Art Institute, the Newton Free Library, the Striar Jewish
Community Center, and various galleries and conferences in
Massachusetts, New York, California and Washington D.C.
Carolyn studied the performing arts, including dance. During
that period, she began to seriously work with her dream life,
her inner life, as a part of her creative flow. She has co-authored
two articles on her dream processes, illustrated with her
work.
Carolyn co-created a one hour interactive performance, stimulus
response, outreach program for head trauma centers and long
term care facilities. Seeing creative energy as the fullness
of the whole person, she used her art skills as a healing
practice, the first of it's kind, creating a magical environment.
Carolyn created colorful characters, both mirthful and mystical
or primal, creating costumes, masks, music and sounds, poetry
and stories, using color as a healing agent, and using dreams
for concepts, stories, characters and sound, creating with
people, using the energy of humor, beauty and thoughtfulness.
Carolyn was on the road with this outreach program for 15
years in 6 states.
From 1992 to the present, Carolyn has been sculpting faces,
from 1 foot to 4 feet in size, all created from her dream
processes, using her painter's skills to fully bring out their
nature and meaning.
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