About the Artist

Carrie is a watercolor artist working in a realistic, detailed style.  Her studies in Interior Design and Graphic Design as well as her time spent living in Europe an Asia have influenced her as an artist.  Carrie currently works from her Arkansas studio after returning from Tokyo, Japan where she resided for over 8 years. Her unique works are bold, vibrant, and dramatic.

Carrie has won numerous awards and has been published in many publications, including the Watercolor Artist Magazine, The Art of Watercolor, Pratique des Arts,  Artist's and Illustrators, International Artist’s Magazine, American Art Collector, Southwest Artist’s Magazine and Splash, The Best of Watercolor series,  14 and 16 through 27. Her works have been exhibited all over the world recently at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Kyoto Kyocera Museum, and the Hiroshima Prefectural Museum.  She has also exhibited in Thessaloniki, Greece, Fabriano, Italy, Santa Marta, Colombia, London, England, Shenzhen, China, Brussels, Belgium, and the Salmagundi Club, New York.  She has had a traveling exhibition of her work for the last 10 years, with pieces traveling internationally as well as throughout the United States.  Carrie won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the American Women Artists' 2020 Museum Competition.  She won Best of Show in the 2023 Women in Watercolor International Competition.  She is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Louisiana Watercolor Society, Mid-Southern Watercolorists, American Women Artists, San Diego Watercolor Society, and the Watercolor Honor Society.   Carrie is the current Vice-President and Awards Director of the National Watercolor Society. She teaches workshops, online and in person, and is an ambassador for Daniel Smith Watercolors.