Carola Colley was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1965. In 1983 she attended the Academie Charpentier in Paris and from 1984-88 completed a degree in sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. Since settling in the Isle of Man twelve years ago she has worked from her studio in the north of the island. The Manx landscape and light has an ancient quality that has a strong influence on her work and provokes a constant stream of ideas. There is a pure exploration of colour, shape, line and observation of the physical interactions of land, sea and sky. She is inspired by the point at which these elements meet, the shapes that they create and the consequences of their interactions