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I have had the pleasure of spending some time with Caratoes over the last couple of weeks and apart from being a really lovely person her work is immense and has an immediately recognisable style. She experiments with many different techniques and genuinely enjoys the freedom to express through these many different styles or techniques that she uses. 

I particularly enjoyed her recent pieces in London (Sclater Street and Kinglsland Road) and so looked into her work. The range and depth to some of her pieces is really impressive. She draws everything freehand and rarely uses any tools (projector, grids) even for her largest murals......and for someone so tiny is mad to see her climbing about her walls and bringing such intricate pieces together  













Sorry for the night shots - its a pain trying to get a clear pic during the day without cars. 

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Some other examples of her work....

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Whilst based out of Hong Kong Cara has painted 35+ walls in 26 countries over the last 12 months so has developed quite a following in the scene. She has been featured in Juxtapose, House of Moloko and many other mainstream journals and has just recently exhibited as part of an all female group show at the Saatchi gallery.

Cara has decided to stay on on London for a few more weeks and is taking commission work and said she would be delighted to do some work for anybody on Urban Art Association.

She is available for drawing and paint work and even better if you have an internal (or even external) wall that you would like to commission, she has also painted the interiors fro many bars, restaurants and clubs. 

There is no middle-man involved, as I know her I agreed to let everyone know that she is taking work (after getting my order in first of course  ). If you are interested then please PM me with your name, a contact number and email address and I will then pass them direct to Cara. All arrangements including payments will be managed directly with her (so you know you aren't paying any additional fees) and I will then help with delivery and stuff.

Its not often we get the opportunity to go direct to a major mural artist (I also have another in the pipeline) and this is a genuine offer but obviously time restricted as she will move on soon so if you are interested let me know asap.


 

[Dibbs 45]

Beautiful work. Great opportunity for the forum to get some decent work from an emerging artist.

[pressman]

Thanks @11, nice post. I actually have a shitty garden wall about 5m long and 2.2m high which would love a bit of Caratoes on it but i think the other half may frown on me spending yet more money on art. I may PM you with some speculative details. Shame Martin Whatsons been tagging her studio.

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pressman I will come back to you on PM (didn't want you to think I haven't seen it)

I'm just giving this a bump for those that have been at work all day and not seen this.

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I've had a 3 separate PM's so far so hopefully Cara has been in-touch. She has also sent me pictures of some of the walls she has done and will also send some pics of drawings tomorrow. 

If you are interested in a small commission either on paper or canvas then just PM me your email address and I will pass the details to Cara so you will be dealing directly with her. 

This was a colab. piece with Tatiana Suarez ^ Lauren YS 












Caratoes by 11 for UAA, on Flickr

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Just caught up with Cara and she passes on her thanks to those that have already shown an interest in her work. She has confirmed she leaves these shores next weekend (8 days) so can take on 2 maybe 3 more small(ish) commissions.....or one BIG one

To give an idea on pricing, her graphite drawings (approx. 36 x 44 cm - which is a bit bigger than A3) would be around £400 to £500 depending on the subject and amount of work. Cara has also said she will dig through some of her study work and maybe offer up a few for a reasonable price (sub £200 maybe even sub £100) - just waiting for her to sort them out and then will pop up pics in the next few days.

If you do want to speak to her about a commission drawing / painting then get in touch by PM and i'll put you to her directly.

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Spotted this for sale at the Saatchi gallery yesterday - not a great pic I'm afraid

[Dungle]

Cheers for the intro 11

My purchase

http://instagram.com/p/BDF8vUrlk_E

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That really is a beauty Dungle - I see she tagged it for omg_artworld too, I missed you by minutes last week and she was gushing about art baby.

I can continue to link people up with Cara as, having met me, Dungle and art baby she's got the misapprehension that your all nice people and is very happy to continue working with us to do some work

I'm sure Dungle will confirm I played no part other than the introduction, everything else is between the 2 of you.

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....and this isn't exclusive to London - if you want some Caratoes then get in touch with your email address and I'll pass it on