Two-week Artisan Spotlight show, featuring the work of Carol Summers
A two-week Artisan Spotlight show, featuring the work of Carol Summers, will run from February 11th to the 24th at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery in Newport.
Carol’s love of flowers, her interest in the energy of people and places, and her appreciation for ancient structures inspire her paintings. The medium of watercolor allows endless experiments in light, color and form.
Born in Indiana, Carol moved to Oregon at the age of seven and has lived in the Pacific Northwest since, except for a year at Santa Monica City College in California. After her junior year at University of Oregon she moved to Seattle, Washington where she ultimately began her court reporting career working at first for the Nuclear Siting Council in and around Olympia, Washington.
Carol retired from ten years of freelance court reporting in Spokane, WA, plus sixteen years as an official court reporter in Lane County, Oregon. She then moved to Yachats, Oregon, in 2003. Besides being immersed in the adventure of watercolor, Carol enjoys playing handbells, being a library volunteer, and staffing the Yaquina Art Association gallery at Nye Beach in Newport as a member of that group.
From 2004 through 2006 she painted with acrylics in the decorative arts style at the Tole Tree in Yachats with Kay Ludlow. In 2005 she added watercolor and has studied watercolor in Florence, Oregon, with Susan Weathers and at YAA. A founding member of Yachats Arts Guild in 2007, she won the People’s Choice Award in 2010. She received awards at Celebrate the Arts in Florence, Oregon, and won a blue ribbon at the Lincoln County Fair in 2015. Her abstract Curvique received an Award of Achievement in 2012 from the Watercolor Society of Oregon.
Carol’s art can be seen online in her album on the Yachats Arts Guild Facebook page. Her art is on exhibit at the Yaquina Gallery in Newport, Oregon, and in various local establishments in Yachats including the Touchstone Gallery.
Evening Shadows
Cleopatra’s Needle
