Artist and designer

Carol studied illustration at RISD, including studying drawing, water color, oil painting, egg tempera, and printmaking.  Upon graduation, she went to work as an artist for Warren Platner, a well-known mid-century modernist architect in New Haven. She learned an assortment of other crafts such as  gilding, silk-screening, model-making, working with plastics, welding and braising.  She designed and painted numerous murals, decorative panels, wall-hangings and carpets for buildings and interiors designed by the firm.

She specializes now in painted furniture and murals, with a concentration in botanical subject matter. She works with architects and interior designers, and she currently teaches drawing and botanical illustration at George Mason University.