Caroline Mousseau
“I'm interested in how surface can encourage movement and connection instead of closure. Abstraction has that potential because it challenges extreme specificity in interpretation—it can really linger.”
— EXCERPT FROM INTERVIEW (22.12.2025)
Caroline Mousseau is a Winnipeg-based painter working with abstraction, colour, and material process. She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Through layered colour and repeated gestures, Mousseau creates paintings that invite slow looking, allowing meaning to shift and unfold over time.
Guided by the physical qualities of paint and the rhythms of mark-making, Mousseau’s work builds connections across surface and depth, past and present, and between the artwork and the viewer. Shapes lean, drift, and overlap, held together by subtle colour relationships and tactile detail. Drawing on both painterly and craft-based traditions, her compositions create sites of quiet exchange, where colour and form operate as a language of connection—linking bodies, gestures, and moments across time.
