Carole Garland, born and raised in Chicago, graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., She studied figure drawing and oil painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of the Americas, Mexico City. After moving to Los Angeles she studied privately with Keith Finch, Venice. Concurrent with her art pursuits, Garland worked as a magazine editor, publicist, director's assistant, book editor, and sales executive. After a brief hiatus from painting, she looked to the outdoors for inspiration and began plein air watercolor studies with Don Blaisdell, UCLA.
Arbor View
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Arbor View - Climbing vines wind around the arbor column disappearing into the overhanging leaves as traces of sunlight peak through. The shaded foliage in the foreground contrasts w...
Canvas, Oil
Yosemite Reflections
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Yosemite Reflections" It's a winter's day in Yosemite. A recent snowfall powders the creekside brush, the twigs and the fallen branches. Beyond and out of sight, the stately and towering pine trees cast shimmering reflections and dark shadows. The air is clear and cold and the moment is filled with wonder. Fine artist Carole Garland's Yosemite painting...
Oil, Wood Panel
A Girl and Her Dog
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"A Girl and Her Dog" A summer day in the South Bay in SO CAL and a girl and her dog pause for a moment. Fine artist Carole Garland seems attracted by the special bond that develops b...
Oil, Wood Panel
The Girl in the Fountain
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Girl in the Fountain" Nothing is so joyful as a young girl splashing in a fountain, loving the spray yet ducking it at the same time. As the child kicks her way in the pool, her leg...
Canvas, Oil
The Orange Wall of San Miguel #2
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A quiet street of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico is the subject of this painting by Carole Garland. An elderly woman cautiously makes her way along a narrow path using a tree to lend support. The orange wall provides much needed shade in the afternoon heat. Light seeps through the branches of a colorful bougainvillea patterning the orange bulwark. Artist Carole Garland who studied art in both San Miguel de Allende and Mexico City shares her appreciation of the simplicity of this quiet backstreet in a Mexican town. A special moment in time is brought to life. Garland uses the scumbling technique and a paint laden palette knife to achieve texture and depth in the leaves, the branches and the rough pavement of the street. This oil on wood panel is 16"x20" and its natural wood sides serve as a frame. The painting is wired for easy hanging. This is a stand-alone artwork but was conceived as a companion piece to Orange Wall of San Miguel #1. Together they are 16"x 40". Artist Carole Garland has appeared in numerous venues throughout Southern California, including several juried California Art Club exhibits and individual shows at TAG Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work has recently appeared at the West Los Angeles College Art Gallery; the Rose Cafe, Venice; Topanga Canyon Art...
Oil, Wood Panel
$800Sale Price|20% Off
Jersey Boys
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Artist Carole Garland chose to paint the city of Los Angeles, no small task, because so few artists were tackling the sprawling maze of ethnic neighborhoods, spread out suburbia and ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
Bikiniland
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A moment in time - the bikini clad women are oblivious to their surroundings - lost in an e-book, sunk into a sandy slumber, placing a towel on a chair, checking her cell phone while...
Canvas, Oil
$640Sale Price|20% Off
Babyface
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
I fell in love with this cranky little girl at the beach.
Oil, Wood Panel