'Each scene or person I paint elicits a personal response and fires my imagination. I want to capture that moment and convey those thoughts and emotions to my viewer.'
I have had a burning love affair with watercolors for over thirty years and the passion has never cooled nor the intensity ever lessened. I fact, I am more in awe of the medium today than I was in the beginning. The very character of watercolor is thrilling and beautiful in its purity and simplicity. Water and color mixing on paper is amazing in its ability to please the eye and evoke emotion. My goal is to find a way to make use of all that watercolor is without losing its free-flowing natural abilities. I want to paint powerful, passionate paintings.
In the workshops I teach and the demos that I do, it is my desire to inspire artists to loosen up, put aside that 'need' to make a perfect painting and just have fun discovering all the amazing things watercolor can do! New ideas? Bring them on!
I am a signature member of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America and the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies and the Arizona Watercolor Association. She is a juried member of the Arizona Art Alliance and the Arizona Artist Guild and a new juried member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon.
Carole Hillsbery joined Fine Art America on September 1st, 2013.
