Debbie Carroll Works
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Christoval, Texas
Better late than never, was never so true especially when it comes to finding ones passion. After many years of procrastination, my creative adventure began with designing jewelry, but the urge to paint was strong, even though I’d never done much painting. I always considered my talent to be drawing, and strove for realistic images with a perfectionist zeal even though the work I truly admired was more interpretive.
At this time we were traveling to New Mexico every chance we could get, and I fell in love with the expressionist aspect of the art we were seeing in Santa Fe and Taos. So I decided to sign up for a painting workshop with Stephen Kilborn in Taos. The workshop was abstract watercolor, two things outside my comfort zone. He taught us to focus on simplified shapes and flat planes of color. Little did I know that this way of painting would open the door to a new way of painting, I was finding my voice.
My style has evolved over time as I spend more time at the easel and having added plein air painting to my practice. I am primarily interested using the landscape as a jumping off point and selecting elements of design with which to make an interesting composition, using color and line to create a sense of movement.
Inspired by the landscape of the West and Southwest, I’ve continued to paint scenes of my travels, which have recently included Big Bend National Park and the Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle. The bigger the sky, the better; these vast open spaces speak to me and beg to be both documented and interpreted in a graphic fashion. Like a good book, I hope to take the viewer to another time and place.
Education:
Primarily self taught, Debbie has taken workshops with Stephen Kilborn, Peggi Kroll-Roberts and Carla Bosch.
Awards and Honors:
Associate Member of Women Artists of the West
Signature & Founding Member of Cowgirl Artists of America
Judges Choice Award awarded by Tim Newton at EnPleinAir Texas, 2020
Selected Publications:
Haute Magazine 2022
Featured on Horizons Western Art Podcast https://western.gallery/horizons/ 2020
The Texas Wildflower Cover Art, 2019
The Texas Wildflower Interview, 2018
Voyage Houston Interview, 2018
Austin American Statesman Interview, 2015
Selected Exhibitions:
WishYou Were Here - Solo Exhibition at Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery, Buda, Texas September 2023
Coors Western Art Sale & Show 2023
Sense of Place - Solo Exhibition, Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery, Buda, Texas 2022
Cowgirl Up! - Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona, 2021
Folklore & Fairy Tales - Ellen Noël Art Museum, Odessa, Texas, 2021
Plein Air Painters of New Mexico National Juried Members Show, Sorrel Sky Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2021
Far & Near - Solo Exhibition at Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery, Buda, Texas, 2021
Light, Color, Beauty - Group Exhibition at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, 2021
New Western Talent - Western.Gallery, 2020
Texas Women - Western.Gallery, 2020
The Big Picture Show - Solo Exhibition at Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery, Buda, Texas, 2020
Scenes from the Road - Solo Exhibition at Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery, Buda Texas, 2019
Selected Collections:
Texas Retirement Systems, Austin, Texas
San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas
Representation:
Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery, Buda, Texas
Mary Williams Fine Art, Boulder, Colorado
Mockingbird Handprints, San Antonio, Texas
The Ranch at Taos, Taos, New Mexico
Worrell Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale and Tucson Arizona