Carol Magai

Carol Lynn Magai is an emerging artist who lives in New York City. Art is a second career for her. Carol spent 35 years engaged in university teaching and research, with a primary focus on human emotion (cf, Magai and Haviland, The Hidden Genius of Emotion, Cambridge University Press). On retirement she turned to a deeper personal expression of emotion--writing narrative fiction, reengaging with the piano, and painting. She comes from a family with an artistic background; her grandfather designed wrought-iron fireplace andirons, lamps, and objets d’art; a grand-uncle was a lithographer; her father did sketches and cartoons and designed and built stone fireplaces as a hobby. Earlier in life Carol experimented with occasional figurative sketches and portraits in graphite, but took up watercolor painting in earnest four years ago. Although largely self-taught, her two most influential artistic mentors have been Walter Lynn Mosely and Oksana Lerman. She has also taken intensive workshops with Grahame Booth, Eric Wiegardt, Keiko Tanabe, John Skelcher, Kristi Grussendorf, and Loli Dalvaro. Carol is primarily a landscape artist, although her interests and works are wide-ranging across different themes and genres; across all, she ...

Masters: Biopsychology
Ph.D.: Life-span Developmental Psychology
Post-Doctorate: Human Emotions Lab, University of Delaware