Biography

Artist Statement

I love to sit in a place - a French lavender field, an Italian courtyard, a cafe - and absorb the space.  The light.  The spirit.  The emotion.  I try to capture that feeling to entice the viewer to say:  “I want to be there”.  Painting transforms me from an observer to a participant.

I create to discover the heart of a place and the heart of a story.  Until I find and interpret and communicate that heart, a painting or a story is incomplete.

I love the language of painting, and because I am also a writer, the similarities between painting and writing fascinate me.  Just as a story has bones, structure, plot, characters, place, and detail so does a painting.  Color, texture, shape, design, form, and calligraphy are the language of painting.

Unlike writing, with its endless cycles of rewriting and editing, painting gives me a sense of completion.  The story ends and another story begins.  The world is full of stories and I want to tell as many as I can with my art.

Biography

Carol Ann has been a full-time artist since 2000, following a twenty-five year sales and marketing career.  During the first years of her painting career, Carol was best known for her colorful interpretations of Mexico, Europe, and the American Southwest.  She has since broadened to include abstract and non-objective acrylic and collage paintings in her body of work.  Carol also teaches watercolor pouring and watermedia design classes.  Carol lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona.

Carol has studied with watercolor masters Frank Webb, Alvaro Castagnet, Diane Maxey, Catherine Gill, Evelyne Boren, Jean Grastorf, Judi Betts, Betsy Dillard Stroud, Virginia Cobb, Gerald Brommer, and Katherine Chang Liu.

Carol is represented by InArt Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Richeson Art School and Gallery, Kimberly, Wisconsin.