Carroll Charest

Carroll was born in Edmonton and raised in Hinton, AB- a small town nestled in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

She graduated from a 4 year Diploma Program at Alberta College of Art in 1989 with distinction winning the Heritage Travel Scholarship Award 1988 & 1989.

She is inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s fluidity and minimalism and the surrealist dreamscapes of Salvador Dali.

She has works in private & public collections throughout Alberta.

She enjoys nature and often uses animal skulls, driftwood and cave photographs as starting points, focusing on one particular area, zooming in and letting the image transform into its own entity on the canvas, sometimes creating a foreign, dreamlike landscape and other times a deep cavern to explore.

She invites the viewer to explore these wide “enclosed” spaces and see what images come to life in their eyes.