This is me painting on the beach at Delnor Wiggins State Park, where I am resident artist for 2008.

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From the beginning to now:

I have known I was an artist since the age of ten (being an artist was not something I just chose but it was what I was born with) and have worked in a diversity of art fields for many years. Here's a few: I have been a graphic designer and illustrator; I have been a signwriter with some of my hand painted pub signs in Dublin, Ireland appearing on a Tom Cruise movie set; I have designed and charted needlepoint for Dimensions Inc.; I have worked in England, Ireland and the USA, and since moving to Florida in 1995 I have done faux finishing, murals and trompe l'oeil along with my abstract and representational paintings.

Now and Future
What I am working on now is my Florida Nature series. Florida is an amazing eco-system, full of unique and fantastic fauna and flora. I am saddened that the quantum speed of development around here is destroying the beauty forever. Many people who visit or even live here never actually see the real Florida.

I go to Florida State Parks and other preserved areas and take hundreds of reference photos of what I discover there and use them to paint from. Hopefully I am exposing the hidden beauty all around us and sharing some of the joy that it gives to me. 

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Carol McArdle

Carol@carolmcardle.com

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Carol McArdle Bio

Carol McArdle was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, W.I. to an English Mother and Jamaican Father. At the age of three she moved to England with her Mother and spent most of her childhood in English boarding schools. Only the last two years of High School were spent back in Jamaica where Carol loved the weather but missed England's culture and society.

Carol knew from the age of ten she would be an artist and went to West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, Surrey in England. Farnham was only an hour's train ride from London with all the great Art exhibits always available and Carol often visited the National Gallery, The Tate and the British Museum. The variety of styles of art that Carol was exposed to has always remained with her and her long art career has spanned many art disciplines. She is a multi-talented artist, excelling in whatever she puts her hands to.

After having lived in England, Ireland and Jamaica, Carol moved to the States in 1992 and to Southwest Florida in 1995. She became an American citizen in 2001 and has now lived in Florida, where she feels she is finally home, longer than anywhere else all her life. Carol's art also reflects her appreciation of Florida's warm climate and unique landscapes. Her latest series of paintings being a collection of what she discovers in the local Florida state parks and other preserved land.