Carol Blair

I enjoy painting people and scenes in a way that captures common experience by combining emotional and experiential contexts through color, texture, and figurative elements. I try to convey joy, tension, confusion, thoughtfulness, loneliness, or tranquility through quiet scenes I have seen or meaningful moments I or have experienced. I paint primarily from life, my own original photographs, or imagination, so my work usually starts with realism but can venture into abstraction. This evolution can happen as I am painting and like what I see in passages of paint and then go with it, continuing with color and expressionistic experimentation on the canvas simply because I think it is beautiful.

I studied art at the University of South Florida, where I earned a bachelor's degree in fine art with an emphasis in painting. I also have a master's in education from the University of Florida and a second bachelor's in journalism from Western Kentucky University.