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Welcome to my Online Colored Pencil Studio
I have been involved with art from the time I can remember as a child. My focus was on art into my college years. Though life interfered at one point and my primary focus was on my family and children, I soon found that I could not stay away from it and was always, at least, thinking of it if not doing it. Time passed and I was not creating art on a professional level, but creating it for my own pleasure. Eventually, that was not enough, and I began to work on a full time basis at my easel. Then I found Colored Pencil as a medium and began to produce drawings at such a rate that I was able to collect a body of work exceeding 40 drawings in the space of 7 months and was given a "one man" show at the Hilltop Gallery in Nogales, AZ. Since then I have continued to create drawings in Colored Pencil and have been accepted to many shows of renown. I have begun experimenting with different support surfaces and expanding my horizons with new products that are still within the Colored Pencil medium, but add additional depth and dimensions to my drawing.
While some artists settle on one subject matter to create their drawings or paintings, I find that I sense beauty in all things, be it nature, architecture or a composed still life and cannot limit myself to only one of them. I love the flora and fauna of the desert, buildings and people and will continue to explore the beauty in all things.
I am available for commissions. Please contact me for more information.
You may email me by clicking here: vcarroll42@yahoo.com
You may also reach me at: 5251 W. Crestview Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85745 (520)743-9680
Professional Memberships
Arizona Art Alliance
International Guild of Realism
Colored Pencil Society of America
CPSA Chapter #212 (Arizona State Chapter)
Tucson Colored Pencil Artists' Association
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Tucson Museum of Art
Hilltop Gallery, Nogales, Arizona
Current Shows and Exhibitions: 2011
I've been juried into the International Guild of Realism Exhibition
The exhibit will be held in Sante Fe, NM at the Sage Creek Gallery, 200 Old Santa Fe Trail, in Santa Fe, NM. The exhibit will run from Sept 30 through October 22, 2011. The piece juried into the show is "Reflections On The Dark Side" which can be seen now in the Landscape Gallery here on my website.
I've been juried into the CPSA Explore This! 7 online exhibition
The exhibit will be posted in CPSA's website beginning February 1st. The piece juried into the show is "Pepperpot" which can be seen now in the Still Life Gallery here on my website. To see the exhibit go to the
CPSA website at www.cpsa.org and select the link to the exhibit.
Past Shows and Exhibitions:
Please click HERE to view a complete listing of my previous shows and awards.
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Award Winning Artist
Virginia Carroll
Photo Courtesy Ester Roi
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