Carolyn Caldwell
Carolyn Caldwell is a painter living on Deer Isle. She studied art at the University of Montana, among other institutions. She has been exhibiting and selling her work since 1995 in Maine and the Virgin Islands.
Caldwell’s subjects often begin in the landscape or in architecture. She is concerned with the dramatic way changing light can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, a stark landscape into abstraction, architecture into geometric composition.
While primarily working in pastel, she has recently begun a series of large oil paintings derived from shoreside buildings in Stonington. While the scenes will be vaguely familiar to some, Caldwell’s reductive style elevates them to the status of iconic images.