ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Catford, England, Carolyn grew up in southern California, where she studied
art and psychology at UCLA. In 1980 she moved to her cliff-side home high above
the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, where she studies, writes, and paints amidst the
surrounding wilderness. A passion for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with spiritual
transformation have propelled Carolyn to become an award-winning poet, writer, and artist. She is the author of twenty-five books, a variety of which are used as inspirational texts in universities and healing centers, and are featured along with the writings of seven other acclaimed woman writers in a continuing course, “The Other Half of the Sky: Eight Woman Writers,” at Swansea University in Wales. Carolyn’s poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Climates of the Mind, was translated into Braille by the Library of Congress. Her writings have been translated into over 15 languages, and two of her publications are available in bilingual and trilingual editions, published internationally.
Over the past three decades, Carolyn has created an extensive and diverse body of paintings and drawings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. In her language of symbolic imagery, Carolyn expresses the passions of the human heart and a pantheistic reverence for the wilderness she inhabits. The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University exhibited a retrospective of Carolyn’s paintings and drawings in 2008 and published a catalog, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld: Visions from Big Sur, with commentary by Michael Zakian, PhD, curator and director. Carolyn’s art is featured internationally in galleries,
museums, private collections, and multimedia presentations.
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KRATKA BIOGRAFIJA
Rođena u Catfordu u Engleskoj, Carolyn
je odrasla u južnoj Kaliforniji, gdje je
studirala umjetnost i psihologiju na UCLA.
Godine 1980. preselila se u svoj dom na
litici visoko iznad Tihog oceana u Big
Suru, gdje studira, piše i slika usred okolne
divljine.
Strast za kreativnim izražavanjem
i doživotna fascinacija duhovnom
preobrazbom potaknuli su Carolyn
da postane nagrađivana pjesnikinja,
spisateljica i umjetnica. Autorica je dvadeset i pet knjiga, od kojih se
razne koriste kao inspirativni tekstovi na sveučilištima i u iscjeliteljskim
centrima, a predstavljene su zajedno sa spisima sedam drugih priznatih
spisateljica u kontinuiranom tečaju “Druga polovica neba : Eight
Woman Writers”, na Sveučilištu Swansea u Walesu. Carolynine pjesme
nominirane su za nagradu Pushcart. Njezinu prvu knjigu, Climates of
the Mind, Kongresna knjižnica prevela je na brajicu. Njezina su djela
prevedena na više od 15 jezika, a dvije njezine publikacije dostupne su
u dvojezičnom i trojezičnom izdanju, objavljene u inozemstvu.
Tijekom posljednja tri desetljeća, Carolyn je stvorila opsežan i raznolik
korpus slika i crteža, u rasponu stilova od romantičnih figurativnih do
apstraktnih. Svojim jezikom simboličkih slika, Carolyn izražava strasti
ljudskog srca i panteističko poštovanje prema divljini koju nastanjuje.
Muzej umjetnosti Frederick R. Weisman na Sveučilištu Pepperdine
izložio je 2008. retrospektivu Carolyninih slika i crteža i objavio
katalog, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld: Visions from Big Sur, s komentarom
dr. Michaela Zakiana, kustosa i redatelja. Carolynina umjetnost je
međunarodno predstavljena u galerijama, muzejima, privatnim
zbirkama i multimedijskim prezentacijama.