Artist Statement

         As a retired registered nurse, I paint for fun and relaxation. Going into my studio and putting on my uniform, now a painter's smock, I smile as I look at the blank piece of board from my local hardware store. I visualize what the finished product will look like after being massaged with brushes and oils. After 38 years of nursing people back to health, I now apply that care and tender touch to my paintings. Each painting is special, just like my patients were, with its own special needs. I have to step back to study and diagnose what would bring more beauty to the piece - a little stroke of color here or a bold push of texture there. And when it's finally “well”, I take joy in sending it out into the world.

        I continually seek to improve my work by taking workshops and studying under nationally known artists such as Charles Gruppe, Robert Hoffman, Lori Putnam, Roger Dale Brown, and Dominic Vignola. Just as with the continuing education courses I took in nursing, each class gives me wonderful new ideas and techniques.

"Works by Carol Jones" solo exhibit in the Hopkinsville Art Guild Gallery, KY, May through June, 2010 (exact date of reception to be announced)

"Arches of Europe Etcetera" exhibit in the Ethel Smith Gallery in Nashville, TN, August, 2009

Janis Mason Art Museum Juried Show, KY, May 2009

Judge for KY Fed. of Women's Clubs Art Show, Spring 2009

Part of “The Studio” show at Elizabethtown Community College Gallery, KY, December and January, 2008-09

Tomato Artfest Juried Show, Nashville, TN, August, 2008

Tennessee Art League Juried Show, March, 2008

Hopkinsville Pennyrile Juried Show, KY, October, 2007

Janis Mason Art Museum Juried Show, KY, September 2007

Art for Inspiration artist, Brentwood, TN, Fall, 2007