CAROLINE CHANTER was born in 1950 in Singapore and was educated in England. After schooling at Michael Hall, Sussex, she studied art at Exeter Art College in Devon and afterwards at Leeds Polytechnic in Yorkshire. Later, she graduated from the Margarethe Hauschka School for Artistic Therapy in Germany and, in 1983, joined the Anthroposophical Medical Practice in Forest Row, concurrently teaching at Tobias School of Art in East Grinstead, Sussex. Between 1993 and 1999 she was one of Gerard Wagner's pupils at the Goetheanum Painting School. She now teaches at the Rudolf Steiner Painting School in Dornach, Switzerland, and at Swaasthyakala Niketan, a painting therapy school in Bangalore, India.
[Wagner's] whole being bowed before the mystery of color in a loving, joyful yet serious way, full of devotion and dignity. His life and work itself became a living metaphor of the creative power of color. --Christian Hitsch Caroline Chanter has not only accomplished a great and seminal study that illuminates the life and work of Gerard Wagner, but has done a great service also to the Goetheanum and its School of Spiritual Science. --Peter Selg [Gerard Wagner was] a soul which on earth was devoted so selflessly and in such purity to the beings that are revealed...in forms and colors. He helped them to utterance and manifestation in this world of ours. --Sergei O. Prokofieff