Carole Keller was raised in rural New Hampshire and began painting at an early age. she studied painting and art history at Plymouth State College with Mary Taylor. She has lived and worked in Florida and California, where she studied with Georgia Abode. She is a member of the NH Art Association and the Lakes Region Art Association.
For Keller, the best times of the day are early morning and late afternoon when the sun sparkles its way into the branches of the trees. The moon and sun have always been her muses, and she continues to bring light into her painting. She works from her studio in the Bleu Waves Gallery in Meredith, NH, and teaches oil painting to students from the Lakes Region and Florida.
“I am inspired by painters like Sorolla, who have gone before me, lighting the way. I am intrigued by the way the light bounces around my subjects and the colors it creates. I grapple with bringing my strokes, one at a time, loosely to the canvas with the desire to push the lights and the temperatures in the hidden shadow areas. I am forever working out the temperature of the strokes I lay next to each other as I go.
“I make art because it’s impossible not to”
