Carol mothner biography
Carol Mothner is renowned as a painter of exquisite works that detail the ethereal qualities of her subjects.!
By Norman Kolpas
Of Science and Nature, egg tempera on paper, 12 x 12. |
Just a few miles from Carol Mothner’s home is the rugged, high-desert landscape that inspired some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most glorious paintings. And a few blocks outside Mothner’s door is Santa Fe’s historic plaza, with its adobe buildings that have been immortalized by countless artists.
Carol Mothner (Born ) is active/lives in New York, New Mexico.
Yet Mothner does not venture out into the Southwest for her artistic inspiration—instead, she journeys inward.
At 6:30 a.m. each weekday, Mothner rises, exercises, has breakfast with her family, and gets her 9-year-old daughter Elizabeth off to school.
Around 8 a.m. she walks down the hall to her studio, which feels more like a cozy, cluttered bedroom than an artist’s retreat. She sits down in front of her easel, raises a magnifying glass in her right hand and a sable brush in her left, and begins her almost microscopic explorations into the soul of the natural world.
Rhythm and Blues, egg tempera on pap |