Carol Dawson
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Wally's Peonies, 2024
watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 29 x 37 framed, $4000

Still Life Explosion, 2024
watercolor on paper, 26 x 20 inches, 33 x 27 framed, $3200

Life and Death, 2024
watercolor on paper, 22.25 x 30 inches, 29.25 x 37 framed, $4000

Falling Bouquet, 2024
watercolor on paper, 40 x 26 inches, 47 x 33 framed, $4800

Dead White, 2024
watercolor on paper, 20 x 20 inches, 26.5 x 26.5 framed, $2500

Peonies in Lamplight, 2024
watercolor on paper, 30 x 41 inches, 36 x 48 framed, $5200

Aloe's Bouquet, 2024
watercolor on paper, 20.75 x 29 inches, 27.75 x 37 framed, $3800

Angelskin, 2022
watercolor, 22 x 30 inches, 29 x 36.5 inches framed, $3500

White, 2022
watercolor, 22 x 30 inches, 29 x 36.5 inches framed, $3500

Marie Antoinette, 2022
watercolor, 30.25 x 45 inches, $5500

Violet, 2022
watercolor, 22 x 30 inches, 29 x 36.5 inches framed, $3500

Green, 2022
watercolor, 22 x 30 inches, 29 x 36.5 inches framed, $3500

Gold, 2022
watercolor, 30 x 45 inches, sold

Wading: White-faced Ibis, 2020
watercolor, 44.5 x 33.5 inches, 54.5 x 43.2 inches framed, $5200

Big Hello: Chickadee, 2020
watercolor, 30 x 22 inches; 36 x 28 3/4 inches framed, $2800

Peering: Green Heron, 2020
watercolor, 44.5 x 33.5 inches unframed, 54.5 x 43.2 inches framed, sold

Wading: Reddish Egret, 2020
watercolor, 51.5 x 33.5 inches unframed, 61 x 43.5 inches framed, $5800

So Sweet: Female American Redstart, 2020
watercolor, 22.5 x 20 1/4 inches, 28 3/4 x 26 inches framed, sold

Eagle Owl, 2018
watercolor on paper, 46 x 32 inches, 50 x 37 inches framed, $4800

Teetering: Titmouse, 2020
watercolor, 40 x 32 inches unframed, 41 3/4 x 33 3/4 inches framed, $4500

Autumn House Finch, 2019
watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches unframed, $2800

Female Cardinal III, 2016
watercolor on paper, 40 x 33 image unframed, $3650

Grackle I, 2016
watercolor on paper, 40 x 33 unframed, $3650

Grackle II, 2016
watercolor on paper, 40 x 33 unframed, $3650

Scrub Jay, 2016
watercolor on paper, 32 x 40 inches, $4000

Tree Sparrow, 2016
watercolor on paper, 50 x 40 unframed, $5250

American Tree Sparrow, 2016
watercolor on paper, 42 x 33 image unframed, $3550

In the Fairy Forest II: Twilight Poppy, 2020
watercolor, 16 x 12 inches unframed, $600

In the Fairy Forest I , 2020
watercolor, 12 x 16 inches unframed, $600

Path Toward Light, 2017
watercolor, 46 x 40 inches, 49 x 43 inches framed, $5200
About the artist...

View Carol Dawson's October 2024 Group Show: Floral Realism
View Carol's 2022 Artist Talk and Tour.
View Carol's 2020 Artist Talk and Tour.
Tour Carol's Blanco home studio, and View her backyard birding observations.
View the virtual tour of Carol's 2018 show.
Read the article in UT's Biodiversity blog about Carol's Tower Girl: Peregrine Falcon here and view the Tower Girl live cam here.
Read the review in ArtProfiler here.
View the virtual tour of Carol's 2016 show here.
Carol gave a wonderful talk describing the duality of being a literary and visual artist. It is available for you to listen to on our blog.
Dawson aims to transform the perception of commonplace natural scenes into one of new wonder. She demonstrates how a small piece of our everyday world is filled with detail and life, turning the micro into macro. Dawson employs birds as well as botanicals as her subjects. She depicts the birds on a human-like scale. The effect not only captures their immediate beauty but lends each an inescapable presence. As iconic as birds have been throughout human cultural development--occupying an archetypal place in our psyches—they are often seen as small, distant creatures, forever flitting beyond reach. However, in Dawson’s work, they confront the viewer eye-to-eye, ensuring a new consideration. Dawson hopes that the viewer will perhaps feel as if he or she is facing an equal--a bird meeting another bird on its own ground--and remember that the conservation of this dwindling population is of primary importance to us.
After studying English Literature and Anthropology at The University of Texas in Austin, Dawson went on to launch her writing career, live abroad in Europe and New Zealand, and formally train under the tutelage of painters Ray Vinella and John Koenig in Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels and two non-fiction books. In addition, she has published numerous articles in national magazines, while simultaneously exhibiting her watercolors in galleries and shows in New Mexico, Washington, and Texas. She has also served as the official Writer-in-Residence and Visiting Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at The College of Santa Fe, and continues to instruct writing workshops and classes.
Dawson has been focusing on watercolor for thirty years. Her visual work is represented in public and private collections across the country.