Fine Art by Carolyn Caldwell

ARTIST'S STATEMENT I was educated first as a photographer, then as an architect before turning to painting. The photography taught me to compose. The architecture taught me the importance of solidity and simplicity. Why do I paint? To share my perceptions with others. We all see the world differently and sharing our vision enriches us and helps us understand one another. What do I paint? Vanishing beauty. The world is changing rapidly. Development is overtaking the natural world. Unique places are becoming homogenized and the natural environment is disappearing. We can't take a beautiful landscape for granted any more because tomorrow there may be a cell phone tower in the center of it or a strip mall in its place. My hope is that artists can slow the rush. Maybe we can make people appreciate what is there and care enough to preserve it before it is lost forever. BIO Carolyn Caldwell is a painter and pastel artist living on Deer Isle. She studied photography and art at University of Montana, San Francisco State and Universite de Strasbourg. She received a degree in Architecture from Boston Architectural Center and moved to the Caribbean where she designed houses for 16 years. She returned to painting in 1987. Caldwell’s subjects often begin in the landscape or in architecture. She is concerned with the dramatic way the changing light can transform the landscape into abstraction, architecture into geometric composition. She has been exhibiting and selling her work since 1995 in Maine and the Caribbean. She is a signature member of Pastel Painters of Cape Cod, Pastel Painters of Maine, and Deer Isle Artists Association. She gives pastel workshops and private instruction in her studio in Deer Isle.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 2006 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997	New Work, Deer Isle Artists Association, Deer Isle ME Wine Cellar Gallery, Elllsworth ME Postcards from Lobsterville, Grubbs Gallery, Williston-Northampton School, Easthampton, MA New Work, Wicker, Wood & Shells, St. John, VI Fields of Light, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME Lobsterville, Deer Isle Artists Assn., Deer Isle, ME Little Landscapes, Blue Hill Coop, Blue Hill, ME Maine Landscapes, First Congregational Church, Blue Hill, ME New Work, Wicker Wood & Shells, St. John, VI Grand Auditorium, Ellsworh, ME Brooklin Inn, Brooklin, Maine Morning Market, Wicker, Wood & Shells, St. John, VI More Morning Markets, Wicker, Wood & Shells, St. John, VI New Work,Wicker, Wood & Shells, St. John, VI Devonish Gallery, Anguilla, BWI Grasshopper Gallery, St. John Devonish Gallery, Anguilla, BWI Grasshopper Gallery, St. John Chase Manhattan Bank, St. John Grasshopper Gallery, St. John Chase Manhattan Bank, St. John
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995	Ames Pond, Isalos Gallery, Stonington, ME Millions Taken Daily, Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME Summer In Maine, Rivertree Center for the Arts, Kennebunkport, ME Welcome Spring, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod Signature Members Show, Falmouth, MA Religion and Politics/ Church and State, Union of Maine Visual Artists, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME Members Show, Deer Isle Artists Assn. Deer Isle, ME 33rd Annual For Pastels Only, Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club, NY Warflowers - From Swords to Plowshares, USM Art Gallery, Portland, ME (travels) Jazz, Geoffrey Warner Studio, Stonington, ME Pastels Only, National Juried Show, Pastel Painters of Maine, Kennebunkport, ME For Pastels Only on Cape Cod, National Juried Show, Chatham, MA Annual Members Show, Deer Isle Artists Assn., Deer Isle, ME Night - From Twilight to Dusk, Isalos Gallery, Stonington, ME Reflections, Geoffrey Warner Studio, Stonington, ME Signature Members Annual Juried Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Cahoon Museum, Cotuit, MA Renaissance in Pastels, Connecticut Pastel Society, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT National Juried Show, Pastel Painters of Maine, Kennebunkport, ME Group Show, Camden Falls Gallery, Camden, ME Signature Members Annual Juried Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA Autumn Hues, Camden Falls Gallery, Camden, ME Monhegan, McGrath Dunham Gallery, Castine, ME Realism, The Clown, Portland, ME Members Show, Deer Isle Art Assn., Deer Isle, ME Pining for the Islands, Camden Falls, Gallery, Camden. ME Signature Members Annual Juried Show, Pastel Painters Socirty of Cape Cod, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA Shelter, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME Small Works Landscape Exhibition, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME Group Show, Camden Falls Gallery, Camden, ME Sixth Annual Exhibition, International Association of Pastel Societies, Placerville, CA Members Show, Deer Isle Art Association, Deer Isle, ME Signature Members Juried Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Marion, MA Maine Open Juried Art Show, Waterville Area Art Society Group Show, Artists’ Association of St. John, St. John, VI Annual Juried Show, Union of Maine Visual Artists, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME Group Show, Christiansted Gallery, St. Croix, VI Shari Erickson and Carolyn Caldwell, Wicker, Wood & Shells, St. John, VI 11th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. Thomas National Juried Show, Pastel Society of North Florida, Fort Walton Beach, FL 10th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. Thomas, VI The Caribbean Comes to New England In January, Grubbs Gallery, Williston-Northampton School, Northampton, MA Mostly Monotypes, La Tapa, St. John, VI 9th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. Thomas, VI 8th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. Thomas, VI 7th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. Thomas, VI
AWARDS
20062006 2005 2004 2002 2002 1999 1997 1995	Residency, Vermont Studio Center Hudson Valley Art Assoc. Award, Pastel Society of America, NYC Pastel Painters of Maine 5th Annual Juried Exhibition Solo Show Award, Small Landscape Exhibition, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME Maine Open Juried Art Show, Waterville Area Art Society, Waterville, ME 11th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. Thomas, VI 9th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. John, VI 7th Annual Caribbean Color Exhibit, St. Thomas, VI
EDUCATION
1977-83 1976 1974-75 1973-74 1972 1970-71 1968-70	B.Arch, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA Course Work, Rhode Island School of Design M.Ed. , Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; B.A.(Art), University of Montana San Francisco State, San Francisco, CA Universite de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
WORKSHOPS AND ART INSTRUCTION
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1998 1995 1991	Katherine Smit. Pastel Portraits, Cape Cod Hong Nian Zhang, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY Stuart Shils, Great River Arts Institute Walpole, NH Edith Cohenno Bryant, Siri Beckman and Mary Clare Foa Carole Chisholm Garvey Frank Federico Thomas Sgouros David Millard Jeanne Dobie
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
	Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Signature Member Union of Maine Visual Artists Deer Isle Art Association

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