Laurette Carroll

Laurette Carroll studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She works in oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels, often using mixed media and integrating drawing and collage elements into her paintings. Her approaches range from naturalistic to impressionistic and abstract. Landscapes, in particular rivers, marshes and swamps, are a primary theme in her work, which is painted directly from nature as well as from memory and imagination. Gardens are another key focus, and at times she incorporates writing from her garden journals into her paintings of sunflowers, poppies, delphiniums, and garden landscapes.

In recent years she has employed a tonalist technique, working in oils to create evocative landscapes that come directly from imagination. She has also recently returned to clay sculpture, working on an extended series of figure studies in terra cotta and other clay bodies.

Laurette’s work has been exhibited widely, and her paintings and sculptures are featured in many private collections, including those in New York, Boston, Chicago, Amsterdam, and Berne.