Carol Reilley
Artist, Designer, Educator                     Studio Telephone: 520-803-0802
Inspiration
"Nature inspires me, from the nation's national parks to the lush tropics of faraway islands.
Trips to ancient Greece, Spain, and France start a new series of paintings for me each time I
travel. I paint with a sense of mystery. I believe a painting should never tell you everything;
leave a little mystery to unfold as the viewer studies the composition. How people interact
with nature is my focus."
Technique
Most of my paintings combine a varied approach to edges..soft, defined, broken, and lost.
This achieves that mysterious background when combined with detailed focal points, giving
you a beautifully unique painting. I achieve that look by relying on wet-into-wet techniques
in water color and creative glazing techniques in oil.
Carol Reilley
is a third generation artist and designer, with one degree in fine
painting and one in interior design from Parsons School of Design
in New York. After a successful twenty year career as a Vice
President of Ethan Allen, she returned full time to painting and
opened the Studio of Art and Design in  Connecticut and a second
studio in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
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