By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the second of two 12-piece Exhibitions of works by American landscape artist Carol L. Douglas, (born 1959 in Buffalo, New York).

When Carol was five, her family purchased a farm in nearby Niagara County. She credits this as the basis of her enduring love of the land. She is a graduate of Calasanctius Preparatory School and attended SUNY Buffalo. She worked variously as a curator, non-profit music school director, and reporter before settling down to free-lance graphic design.

In 1994, she and her husband moved to Rochester, NY. Rather than build a new client list, Douglas returned to school, studying computer science. The birth of her youngest child interrupted her classes, and she began painting intensively while waiting to return during the next semester. “If you can still paint this well after laying off for so many years, perhaps you should do that instead of programming,” her husband told her.

Douglas studied at the Art Students League in New York with Nicki Orbach, Cornelia Foss, Joseph Peller, and others. Back in Rochester, she accepted the personal discipline of painting en plein air every day for a year, excluding Sundays. “It’s instructive to paint outdoors in the dead of winter, even in western New York,” she said. “And painting landscape from life is actually harder than painting the figure. It’s a lot more complex.”

Douglas is the former chair of New York Plein Air Painters and a signature member of that group. Although she had been visiting Maine since she was a child, a few years ago she started spending summers there to work and teach. Her popular series of workshops, “Sea & Sky” moves up and down mid-coast Maine and was at the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park last summer. She is represented by several galleries in the mid-coast region, including Camden Falls Gallery. She relocated to Maine permanently this spring. She and her husband have four children and two grandchildren.