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Caroline Ostiguy is an artist residing in Montreal. She began her explorations in art as a teenager, after the passing of her father. He had taught her to use a camera and she honored his memory by experimenting with photography. Later she developed an interest in painting but her main focus remained photography, with occasional forays into film and other art forms. After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 25, a disease affecting the central nervous system, she discoverd a newfound passion for the arts and its therapeutic properties. At first this interest was made out of necessity; no longer able to travel on foot for long distances, she had to give up her photography outings. Confined to her home she turned her attention to art she could create from memory and found that painting allowed her to focus on the beauty around her which was in stark contrast to the sickness she felt inside. Although she began developing her painting style using brushes, the pain in her right hand forced her to experiment with different tools, such as spatulas and even her fingers. Her work is therefore informed not only by her inner vision but also by her somewhat limited physical capabilities, which reveal the painful truth of her disease but also her triumph over it.Artist bio written by Nique |