Carole Garland Paintings
American
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.
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Artist: Carole Garland
Children in the Park
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A deliciously warm summer day in the park. The young
children are idle with a growing sense of expectancy. Any moment something
exciting could happen. If only. Their caretakers atten...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Santa Monicas
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
It is late afternoon in the rugged Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California as the sun is setting. Long shadows are cast - the chaparral, sagebrush and manzanita catch the glint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field of Flowers
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A fresh spring green meadow is dotted with blue bachelor buttons, buttercups and a profusion of prancing white daisies. An abundance of wildflowers in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bougainvilla
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The delicate and vivid paper thin petals of the tropical bougainvillea are the subject of this colorful painting. The magenta rose and cadmium red flowers are ephemeral when cut from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Orange Wall of San Miguel
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The artists' enclave of Sa Miguel de Allende provides inspiration at every turn. Here the Orange Wall on a back street of the town serves as a protective barrier to the sheltered hom...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Racing the Waves
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Mother and her Children. A mother clutches her toddler to her breast and grabs her young son as they make for the shoreline to escape the churning Pacific Ocean waters. Are they ru...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Threesome
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A bright colorful umbrella. And three reserved beachgoers who stare at fellow humans scantily dressed in bikinis and speedos. This was the inspiration for the painting. Perhaps not p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil
Zinnia Love
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
In this painting, Artist Carole Garland captures the flower fun, the lavish display of color and the extraordinary beauty of nature.
The zinnia is a long-stemmed flower with delicate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Petals
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The beauty of the rich red gerbera daisy is inspiration for this abstracted floral of autumnal colors: cadmium red, golden tan and orange with hints of teal. The flowers seem to floa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Afterglow
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Afterglow - Oil painter and fine artist Carole Garland chose as her subject this rosette succulent Echeveria or commonly known as Afterglow with its bell-shaped flowers. The sharp an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Roses are Red...
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Roses are Red... Fine artist and oil painter Carole Garland approaches this floral oil painting, a vase of cherry red and gold orange roses, with the desire to bring the delicate flo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Beach Girls
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Summer is here! Artist Carole Garland evokes a beach day mood with these four teenage girls walking along the shoreline after a swim. Garland depicts these youthful figures in motion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Orchids on Parade
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Descriptive text: Cellophane wrapped orchids caught the eye of artist Carole Garland, and she chose to paint the peekaboo flowers in this abstracted oil painting. This is a new subje...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Orchids for Sale
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Everyday life is full of surprises, and artist Carole Garland uncovers and discovers delight in the cellophane wrapped orchids at Trader Joe’s. The cellophane reflects the sunlight ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lemon Drops
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The lemons in this painting play hide and seek with the viewer as artist Carole Garland explores the mysteries of light and shadow. Myriad shades of green, from cold blue emerald to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rock On
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The movement of water, the changing reflections, leaves floating across the surface, the angle of golden light...
The artist Carole Garland conveys the childlike wonder and awe she feels as she gazes down at a stream in the woods. The rocks are solid and still as the light begins to fade and different shadows appear. Garland attempts to interpret in her work the calm and serenity evoked by nature. There is a spiritual aspect to her embrace of the natural world.
Workshops with Plein Air oil painters Frank...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
City of Angels Hall
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The artist Carole Garland, from Chicago, remembers her move to Los Angeles and her wonder at "Where are all the tall buildings? and Why so much blue sky?" She came to love the City o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Day at the Beach
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Burning sun, waves lapping at the shore, the lingering scent of suntan lotion – it’’s an endless summer day at the beach. Carole Garland evokes the heat, wind and sand of a day along the Southern California coast. Swimmers and onlookers cool off in the Pacific waters waiting for the next surge or ripple.
Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., and studied art at the Chicago Art Institute and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. She has worked privately with artists Keith Finch and Ron Pekar, taken numerous workshops and was mentored by fine artist David Gallup...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Venice Beach
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Depicts Carole Garland reveling in a hot summer day at the Venice Beach. Colorful beach umbrellas shield the timid from the burning sun while sunbathers bask in the searing heat. Yellow and blue ribbons floating on the wind celebrate Venice’s chaos and its whimsy.
To focus the figure of a preteen who stands sentinel, Garland fades out the foreground sunbather on right and obfuscates the crouching man on left. The artist leads us to the groups of mysterious standing and sitting figures in the shadows and beyond. Garland’s collection of figurative work speaks to a contemporary sensibility in her approach to painting, while expressing a curiosity about the human form and an irrepressible concern for the human spirit.
Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. She has worked privately with artists Keith Finch and Ron Pekar, taken numerous workshops and was mentored by David Gallup...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
THE ARTFUL DODGERS
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The artist Carole Garland is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers and so thought a painting of sporting figures in
motion would pay tribute. At the s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
BRANCHING OUT
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
In one of the most vibrant oil paintings from her “Reflection” series, Carole Garland luxuriates in the
splashes of colors, heightening nature’s splendor. Mirrored in the stream, the turning leaves are
replicated and abstracted in the shimmering waters below.
Workshops with Fine Art oil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A friend of Carole Garland’s suggested she might be so enthusiastic about painting figures and groups of people because of her previous isolation during Covid. In fact, her one wish when it was over was to sit at a sidewalk café anywhere and people watch. But in this work, there is something more.
“Thoughts and Prayers” is a reaction to attending a Bingo fundraiser for a Recovery House. Everyone was enjoying themselves at various tables. It was a benign event, except for the specter of mass shootings in innocent, unsuspecting gatherings like this. In the painting, Garland attempts to convey her feelings of dread at an otherwise boisterous occasion. It was happening everywhere, anywhere, all the time.
Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., studied art at the Chicago Art Institute and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. She has worked privately with artists Keith Finch and Ron Pekar, taken numerous workshops and was mentored by David Gallup...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
African Child
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The young African boy is wearing native Zimbabwean dress to reflect the historic clothing of village life.
Carole Garland captures the questioning look of the boy and his wonder why are these visitors
here? The colorful burnt red stencils enhance the trim design of his costume.
Carole Garland has shown in many Southern California venues, most recently at TAG Gallery,
Bergamot Station; realART Gallery, Agoura Hills; West Los Angeles Art Gallery; the Rose Cafe; the Santa Paula...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Innocence and Patience
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
These two South African schoolgirls were staring at yet another group of well meaning tourists passing through their Zimbabwean grammar school. Carole Garland captures their lingering expressions: Innocence, seemingly open, adventurous and hopeful while the other girl, Patience, is perhaps more skeptical, wondering what these people from the United States are doing in her classroom.
To enter their children in school. South African parents must register them with English names so mother and father, who don’t speak English, search through English language newspapers for suitable names, hence, “Innocence” and “Patience.” The tour guide’s name was “Sanction.”
Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. Carole Garland has shown in many Southern California venues, most recently at TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station; RealART Gallery, Agoura Hills; the Santa Paula...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Five O’Clock Shadow
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Late afternoon, the long shadows on a city street speak to a day left behind. Carole Garland discovers poetry in paint in this urban, gritty, dusky setting that is drifting into night. What mysteries lie ahead? “Five O’Clock Shadow” is part of Garland’s Urban LA series of paintings.
Carole Garland has shown in many Southern California venues, most recently at TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station; realART Gallery, Agoura Hills; the Gallery at West Los Angeles College; Rose Café, Venice; the Santa Paula...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Dazzle of Zebras
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Zebras are one of the most interesting and amusing of African animals. They share the genus Equus with horses and donkeys. In a group it is believed their dizzying stripes confuse prey - or perhaps make them dizzy. An artist's delight, zebras' black and white stripes call out to be painted. Taking it a step further, Carole Garland attempts to confuse the viewer with a "Now you see it, now you don't" look at the zebras standing in a streambed in South Africa.
Painted in oil on a 30"x40" wood panel, the wood sides serve as a frame around the painting. Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois and studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. She has worked privately with Keith Finch and Rick Pekar, taken workshops with numerous plein air painters and was mentored by David Gallup...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venice Skateboarder
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Attempting to capture the skateboarder in motion.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Looking Out to Sea
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A blissful summer day, faint breezes moving through her hair, sand slipping between his toes, waves lapping at
the shore. Everyone is looking out to sea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Point of View
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Contemporary Realism
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Babyface
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
I fell in love with this cranky little girl at the beach.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Anxiety
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Carole Garland chooses to refrain from painting sentimental peasant paintings inspired by her travels abroad. Here she departs in a major way. Intrigu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Autumn Leaves
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
From the artist: "Solstice Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains was a retreat from the hectic pace of urban life. Sitting by the Solstice Creek, my painter friend and I relished the quiet except for the murmur of the stream, water bubbling over stone pebbles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Carole Garland painted outdoors in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California so often that she felt at home creekside or in a wooden glen. In her “Reflection” series, the abstract forms of reflected branches and tree trunks share the composition with solid rocks and trailing leaves. Her use of color is fresh and inspired.
Workshops with Plein Air oil painters Frank Serrano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Leaves II
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Creekside one can see the rocks, pebbles and leaves at the bottom of the stream or the viewer can observe the water's surface: floating bugs, bubbles, ripples and reflections, but it's difficult to catch the bottom and the surface simultaneously. However, the photographer or artist can capture the stream's surface and pebble strewn bottom at once. Carole Garland set this as her goal in this painting from her "Reflection" series.
Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., and studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. Outdoor workshops with plein air painters Frank Serrano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tidepooling
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Contemporary Realism
Weight: 1lb.14oz.
Box: 17”x20”
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Splash
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Beach days are magical, and this little girl running and splashing in the surf was relishing her new-found freedom and expressing all the joy to be found on a summer day at the ocean...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Seagull
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Contemporary Realism
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Children on the Fence
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Are the children on the fence staring into space
contemplating their future or are they watching the seagulls in the
distance - and the ocean not far away? They squint into the sun a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Parasol
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The colorful beach umbrella provides protected shade for the beach goers on a hot summer day at Zuma Beach in Southern California. A moment in time is caught on canvas as sunbathers ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Summer in the City
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Hot scorching days. The ocean breezes and summer sands bring urban dwellers relief and the promise of relaxation as they unroll their
beach towels and position themselves in the best...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carole Garland Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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