Carol Irish

Carol's art career actually began when she was about four years old. Her family and teachers strongly encouraged her to do what she always knew she wanted to do anyway: become a professional artist. Attending the Dayton Art Institute on scholarship since grade school, Carol eventually received a scholarship in her senior year of high school to Washington University in St. Louis. There she was fortunate enough to have excellent instruction and learning opportunities which provided her with a solid, well-rounded foundation in drawing and design. Most of her painting teachers were expressionistic, post-modern, and abstract. While she learned something from all of them, Carol freely admits to skipping some classes to find refuge nearby at the famous St. Louis Zoo, observing, studying and drawing the animals. Although she hadn't considered painting wildlife as a career back then, she was fascinated with the wildlife and spent many hours sketching there.
For Carol, a workday can easily consist of rising before sunrise to climb above timberline in the Rocky Mountains where she can connect with a group of mountain goats getting a drink at a small lake before taking off for the day. With the proper behavior toward the herd's matriarch she ...

BFA (With studies at the Dayton Art Institute, the University of Dayton, and the School of Fine Arts at Washington University, St. Louis, MO.)

Society of Animal Artists Exhibitions