About the Artist | Artist's Statement | Awards | Exhibition Experience
Carol Iglesias | Pastel Artist
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Carol grew up in the Pacific Northwest, graduating from Olympic College in Washington State. She then attended The New School of Visual Concepts in Seattle. Carol started working primarily with watercolors and painting portraits. She became an exhibiting member of the Charleston Artists Guild in South Carolina and The Art Guild of Burlington in Iowa. Carol’s work was selected for the Iowa Arts Council Traveling Show. She became involved with Commercial Art and Design and had a successful twenty year career as a Graphic Designer and Art Director. She was co-founder of a design company in Asheville, North Carolina and won numerous awards both nationally and internationally for her designs. Her work has been published in several books. Carol loves working with the brilliant color and texture of nearly pure pigment pastels. Her extensive background of traveling has been very inspiring for her and it has a strong influence on her subject matter. She has always enjoyed an impressionistic style. She has painted in Plein Air workshops in Provence, France, and in Tuscany, Italy as well as various locations around the U.S. Carol is an award winning member of the Maryland Pastel Society whose members come from Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Her paintings are in permanent collections throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Carol has been juried into The Workhouse Arts Center, in Lorton, Va. as a full time member with her own studio.