In control

Every day, in every way, things are not necessarily getting better. In Control (Grace and her unicorn), 24X36, is one of the paintings that’s going to Rye Arts Center’s Censored and Poetic: the works of Carol Douglas and Anne de Villemejane, March 2022. A visitor to my studio recently asked me about the gender disparity in painting. …

Art as information

When we paint, we speak to our present generation, but we’re also speaking to the future. Giant deer from the replica of Lascaux. The Irish elk was one of the largest deer that has ever lived. Its range was vast, across all of Eurasia from the Atlantic to Siberia, feeding on the same boreal woodlands …

Taking stock (part 2)

Happy New Years!  6X8, Carol L. Douglas Yesterday I wrote that I was surprised that I’d met my goals for 2014, with the exception of selling my house (deferred so my son could finish high school in Rochester).Here are my goals for 2015: 1.       To do a better job with this “accountability partner” thing. I …