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Featured Artist Bio:

Our May featured artist, Carol De Marinis is a portrait and landscape painter working in Taos, New Mexico.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio and long-time resident of Los Angeles, the artist found a new habitat following
the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

To tell it in her own words, "A synchronistic and propinquitous commission fell like manna from heaven just
when I was being transferred to Manhattan and I was torn with temptation. Be dropped in the center of the
country's culture? Yes. But the new commission changed all that and allowed for a heart decision. I opted
for less city, not more. I could trade the freeways, now crumbling and shorn off, along with their background
of billboards, for dirt roads through Ponderosa forests and uninterrupted views that reach right into eternity.
The beloved ocean was swapped for clouds of every shape and color I could not have imagined."

Carol's paintings, in watercolor, oil and pastel are in a natural handwriting one Cleveland journalist termed
"interpretive realism." Sculpture is a second love which she is currently using to build ceramic polar bears.

"Keeping my hands in Mother Gaia."


Click here for the great debate over the word propinquitous

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