Carolyn Caldwell's serene "Pemaquid Light" is 17" x 21" framed pastel of the historic lighthouse located at the entrance of Muscongus Bay and John Bay in Bristol, Maine.  

Carolyn Caldwell is a painter and pastel artist living on Deer Isle, Maine. She studied photography and art and received a degree in Architecture from Boston Architectural Center. She designed houses in the Virgin Islands for 16 years and returned to painting in 1987, being influenced by Winslow Homer’s watercolors of the Bahamas. Her Caribbean work in pastel and watercolor was often alive with people and activity. Since moving to Maine in 2000, she has been increasingly drawn toward quieter and more contemplative images. She began painting serene landscapes, reducing them to simpler forms and working in pastels and oils. The result elevated her subjects to the status of iconic images. Familiar island scenes became less specific, but weighted with universal connotations: the solitary clammer in a broad, darkening cove, a lone island beneath a sky awash in moody clouds.

Caldwell’s latest paintings are the result of close observation of the landscape as twilight subdues the colors, removes detail and simplifies shapes, sometimes to the point of abstraction. We’re left with a sense of calm reflection and enduring mystery. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and has had work published in Pastel Journal. She has exhibited her work throughout the Caribbean, the United States and Portugal.

For more information on Carolyn and her work, visit her website here.