Description
‘Eve’ by Kristina Carroll
Artist: Kristina Carroll
Title: ‘Eve’
Medium: Oil, pencil, and acrylic on raw wood
Dimensions: 4″ diameter
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2025
Artwork Will Ship From: USA
About the Artwork:
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― Socrates
I return to the theme of snakes as an allegory for knowledge a lot. Many myths use the symbol but not all turn the snake into a villian. In fact I don’t think it’s an accident that wisdom and healing are two of the main meanings in non-christian myths. The idea that knowledge could be bad always offended me so I think I come back to this sort of imagery as much out of protest as as anything else and these days it seems more relevant than ever.
Once again working with raw wood, I wanted to make sure the shape of the grain would be part of the image and love how it ended up circling around the ear area and then radiating out, like an idea starting to make waves. – Kristina Carroll
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Kristina Carroll is an award winning illustrator and fine artist who has exhibited in galleries around the world.. She specializes in art with a Fantastic, Surrealist and Symbolist aesthetic and utilizes a variety of traditional mediums from oil to drawing to collage. Experimentation and play are a big part of her process and she loves finding new ways to mix them up to create something unique
Kristina has discovered a second love in education and has taught a variety of art and illustration courses at several universities. In addition to teaching traditional classes, she has worked with companies like Dixon Ticonderoga and Gamblin Oil Paints running workshops in colleges all around the East Coast.