Carolyn Lord
Carolyn Lord (Southern California, 1956 – )
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Monday at the Headlands by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Fish Rock Boulders by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Seafoam at Stonehenge by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Fish Rock Retreat by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 22 x 30
Shell Beach Opalescence by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 22 x 30 – On long term loan at the American Embassy in Madagascar
Agave and Barrel Cactus by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15 – SOLD
Poppies with Hollyhock Seedling by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15 – SOLD
Morning on the Coast by Carolyn Lord, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20
Golden Morning at Shell Beach by Carolyn Lord, Oil on Panel, 16 x 20
Drifting Landscape by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Narcissus and Lemon by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 11 – SOLD
Laden with Persimmons by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 22 x 15
Apricot Blossom Twilight by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 22 x 15
Midwinter Lemons by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 11
Ocean Foam by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Morning at Shell Beach by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
California Poppies by the Orange by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 11 – SOLD
Advancing Clouds, Yosemite by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
May Morning Vista by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Yosemite Valley Morning by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Lemon Zest by Carolyn Lord, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 12
January Oranges by Carolyn Lord, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 12 – SOLD
Barns Below Brushy Peak by Carolyn Lord, 2015, Oil on Panel, 8 x 10 – SOLD
Summer Idyll by Carolyn Lord, 2016, Oil on Panel, 8 x 10 – SOLD
Hagemann Farm at Mid-day by Carolyn Lord, 2016, Oil on Panel, 8 x 10
Twin Palms of Mendocino by Carolyn Lord, 2015, Watercolor, 11 x 15 – Best of Show in Sebastopol Center for the Arts California Watermedia Exhibition 2016 – SOLD
Mid-Town Mendocino by Carolyn Lord, 2015, Watercolor, 11 x 15 – SOLD
Costanoan Cemetery by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15 – SOLD
Sweet Hay by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Peaceful Pacific by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Flamingo Duet by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
SLO Eucalyptus by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Dreaming of Emil by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 11
Gary’s Cactus Collection by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 11 – SOLD
Winter Succor by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
June Clouds Passing Over by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 22 x 30
Demask Roses by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 22
November Clouds by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 11 x 15
Aquamarine Morning by Carolyn Lord, 11 x 15
Controlled Burn by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 22
California Hollyhock by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 15 x 11
Mary Lou’s View by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 30 x 22
New Born Spring by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 22 x 15
Persimmon Pudding by Carolyn Lord, Watercolor, 30 x 22 – SOLD
Californian Carolyn Lord was introduced to the “California Regionalist Watercolor” tradition by James Green while attending Principia College in Illinois, 1974-8. During and after college she attended painting workshops with Millard Sheets, Rex Brandt, George Post, Milford Zornes, and Robert E. Wood. Taking advantage of watercolor’s extreme portability, Carolyn has traveled abroad to Brasil, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, England, US and British Virgin Islands, Mexico, and French Polynesia. International travel is nice, yet there is plenty to paint in California with its landscape, architecture, and gardens as expressed through her idiosyncratic choice of subject, design, and color.
Watercolor defines Carolyn Lord’s career as an exhibiting artist, but is not the full extent of her interests: she studied at the San Francisco Tapestry Workshop and Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier; designed posters for the Livermore Valley Opera; enjoys portraiture and figure drawing and oil painting; designed and painted glazed ceramic tile for a fireplace and kitchen installations; taught art to middle school boys at the Pacific Boychoir Academy in Oakland; painted stage sets for Livermore’s West End Theater; and blogs about her paintings for Livermore Patch.com; teaches adult classes in perspective and figure drawing.
Carolyn enjoys architectural history, opera and boy choirs, quilts and embroiders on occasion, relishes painting the fruit trees and flowers that grow in her garden.