My name is Carolina Egusquiza. I was born in Peru and grew up in Auckland. I have been living in NZ since 1997. Art has always been part of my life as I have had started to draw from a young age. I’m inspired by photography, fashion, music, landscape sightings, nature, still-life, animals and cartoons as part of my art practice. I enjoy using graphite, both water-based and coloured pencils, ballpoint and marker pens for my drawings on paper. Acrylics and varnish are also mediums that I usually incorporate into my paintings. I use Adobe Photoshop as well to render many of my illustrations, even though a few of these ones are digitally converted. I have been influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Surrealism and Cubism and therefore, I’m always eager to applying these elements into my works.
Education
Diploma of Arts and Design (Advanced), 2009 & Certificate of Arts and Design, 2006
Whitecliffe College, NZ
Certificate in Fashion Technology, 2004
Auckland University of Technology, NZ