Carmen Alonso

Carmen Marie Alonso is a self-taught artist with a primary focus on oil painting. She was born in 1997 and raised in the valley of Terra Nova. She currently lives and works in Toronto. Thematically, Carmen Marie’s work is centred around her own life. The dream-like spaces she creates are imagined as a result of experiences from her own youth. These memories are translated with a fantastical visual language that is rooted heavily in narrative. The scenes are nearly too grand and ceremonious to be true. The figures are more than alternative renderings of self, friends, and lovers; they are protectors, dancers, forces of nature, mystics, and icons. In this way, her work is confessional, as it examines her memories as she wishes to remember and reimagine them. Beyond this, the narratives that unfold in each work seem to hint at what she craves. The figures in the work become guides; revealing to us what is to come in this fantasy of living.