Laurette
Carroll studied at the School of the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts. She paints with a wide range of materials,
including oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, charcoal,
and pencil; producing works in a broad range of styles,
from naturalistic to impressionistic, as well as purely
abstract.
She
often works directly from her gardens, and landscapes
ranging
from mountains to marshes and rivers, and the northern
New England coast; but also works from memory and imagination
in her studio gallery in Warner, New Hampshire.
In
recent years, following a workshop with Dennis Sheehan,
she
has also turned to working in a tonalist
manner, producing evocative and dreamlike imaginary
landscapes. Laurette is a sculptor as well as painter,
terra cotta
being her favorite medium for figures done from models
and her
imagination.
She
has exhibited widely, and has works in many private collections,
including those in New
York, Boston,
Chicago, Paris, Berne, and Helsinki.
Laurette
is married to artist-naturalist David
M. Carroll. They
have three grown children, two of whom are artists
as well, and the third a writer. A native of Portsmouth,
New
Hampshire, she has lived in Warner since 1969
Artist's Statement:
I am very inspired by my gardens,
by wild wetlands - ponds, marshes, rivers and streams; and
by landscapes
of field
and forest and the New Hampshire coast
These are the sources for my paintings done in naturalistic
and impressionistic styles, and they have a deep
influence on my abstract paintings and collages as well.
My works
in collage often include my own writing, or notes
and poems from favored sources (such as Rumi's poetry).
I
find working in varying styles, with a broad range of
materials,
from the real world and from my imagination,
exciting. It
provides meaningful ways for me to go forward
with my art.
