b. 1984, Boston

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Carolin Leary Prinn's love for art emerged in childhood, inspired as much by the golden age illustrators and classical animation as she was by ancient art and the old masters. At the same time, she was penning her mythical world, The Islands of Niljora, that would become the rich narrative and symbolism behind her work.

 

She graduated with honours from The Savannah College of Art & Design with a full time scholarship and also studied classical art in Boston and Italy. Her professional career took off in her ancestral home of New Zealand, where she was a finalist for The Adam Portrait Award and selected for a national tour with The New Zealand Portrait Gallery. Alongside exhibiting, she engaged in projects in illustration, portraiture and created her own apparel design label with two fellow artists. Ever inspired by world culture and her life experiences, she travelled onwards.

 

Her artwork has featured in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and The International A.R.C. Salon and showcased in galleries in The United States, New Zealand and Europe. Her illustrated books were purchased for the permanent heritage collections of New Zealand's National and Otago University Libraries.