Artist Biography

BORN in 1979 in rural West Virginia, Mary Carroll spent her youth helping her family work their farm and land in an isolated area. She had no television or other modern distractions and was encouraged to entertain herself with objects in nature. Left with the workings of her imagination and observation of the world around her, she translated her understanding into illustrative paintings. She continues this practice today, communicating both the human experience and our relationship to the land and its creatures. Her narrative paintings and drawings echo a provocative daydream that invites the viewer into a world at once familiar and strange.

Carroll received her Master of Fine Arts degree in both painting and art history from Radford University, graduating in 2010 Summa Cum Laude, and was awarded the University’s best graduate thesis. Her work is in the permanent collections of New Salem Museum of Fine Art in Salem, Massachusetts, and R.W. Norton Gallery in Shreveport, Louisiana. She has been awarded by the Portrait Society of America, the International ARC Salon, and has won The Bold Brush Award, as well as The Artist's Magazine competitions and International Artist's Magazine competitions. You can find her work published by these magazines and others like Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, American Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur. She is represented by RJD Gallery in Romeo, Michigan. Carroll lives and works in Ashland, Virginia.

MARY CARROLL

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