Peggys Cove Painting

"I do not choose the subjects that I paint they choose me, I just happen upon them in my endless wandering for inspiration and they appear when I least expect them." Philip J. Carroll has been painting professionally for over 40 years and is currently the Curator of Exhibitions for the Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown and Collingswood New Jersey. He grew up in Haddonfield, N.J. and lives with his family in Collingswood where he has been a long term resident. He teaches oil painting for Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, N.J.. He is a 1984 graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. and studied art history at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. His has had one person exhibitions of paintings at Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2011, Des Champs Gallery in Lambertville, N.J. in 2009, and the Monmouth Museum in 2007 . Recent group exhibitions include the Medford Art Center, Medford New Jersey, 2012, Artists House Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.,2012,2010,2009, 2007, Mainline Center for the Arts, 2007 - 2011, , Deschamps Gallery in Lambertville, 2007-2011. His paintings can be found in the collections The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pa, Price Waterhouse Philadelphia, Pa., Stedman Art Gallery ,Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., Morgan Lewis ,Philadelphia, Pa., McGraw Hill Companies , New York City and many private collections throughout the United States and abroad.