Carey Mortimer was born in 1962. She studied Decorative Arts at the City and Guilds, London Art School from 1984 to 1986. Following this, Carey travelled to Italy, where she completed a further year's study, specialising in fresco technique, at Il Laboratorio per Affresco, Prato. After Italy, she returned to the UK, and from 1990 to 1991, she achieved a Masters in Public Art and Design, at Duncan of Jordanston College of Art, Dundee. She then began her career as an artist, setting up her studio in various places, until she settled in Sardinia, where she lives and works today.

Carey’s work is individual, often ethereal and instantly recognisable. Whilst she is continually faithful to early renaissance painting techniques, such as painting with egg tempera (mixing pigments and egg yolk to create paint) and creating frescoes (the ancient Italian method of painting on plaster), she also works on unusual materials such as wood, cloth and slate. In essence her work is abstract, with the occasional recognisable image, such as a cup, an egg, a shoal of fish, or a symbol or scripture of a time past.

Over the last twenty years Carey has set up various summer schools throughout Europe, where she has taught the art of fresco. She has also worked on many public commissions including Murals in an Aids Baby Ward in Bucharest; Wall Reliefs in the Maternity Unit, Conquest Hospital, Hastings; a Fresco for the Servite Primary School, Chelsea, London; a wall sculpture for the Sainsbury Commission, Newport, Isle of Wight, and an Art Residency for English Heritage at Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Bath.

Carey has had solo exhibitions with Thackeray Gallery since 1994 and her work can now be found in many public, private and corporate collections worldwide.

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