Amy Winehouse
Carolyn is working on her second book of portraits, a project to raise funds and awareness for The Lavender Trust, a charity set up specifically to support young women with breast cancer.
The project is a celebration of the female form, and comprises a series of black and white nudes of talented, dynamic and successful women. Subjects featured include Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Amy Winehouse, Greta Scacchi, Helena Bonham Carter, Sade, Katherine Hamnett, Nicola Horlick, Sally Gunnell and Jeanette Winterson.
Carolyn's aim is to promote a greater appreciation of the female body as a whole, rather than an assembly of parts, and to acknowledge it as a construct of beauty irrespective of shape, size or texture.
The Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care was founded in 1998 by Justine Picardie and Beth Wagstaff, in memory of Justine’s sister Ruth, who died of breast cancer at the age of 33. Beth had also been diagnosed with the disease in her early 30s, and like Ruth, and many other younger women with breast cancer, she felt there was a failure in the provision of services for her age group.
Carolyn was moved to support this charity after reading Ruth Picardie's account of her illness in The Observer's Life magazine, where she chronicled her demise with devastating honesty, wit and courage.
Each year 8000 women under the age of 50 are diagnosed with breast cancer. The Lavender Trust is the only fund in the UK dedicated to addressing their particular needs, and has raised £1.5 million since its launch nine years ago.
(For more information on their services, or how to raise funds for The Lavender Trust, please call 020 7384 2984 or log onto www.lavendertrust.org.uk)