Carolyn Brady

Carolyn Brady was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma in 1937. She died in 2005. She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Oklahoma at Norman.

Carolyn Brady works exclusively in watercolor, exploring three main themes in her painting: still lifes or tablescapes; flower-filled gardens; interior still lifes combined with vistas from nature and the out-of-doors. While these themes recur in the artist’s work, it is the subject of light and the architecture of creating a painting that provide a framework for each of the artist’s images.

Brady’s paintings of the past several years have concentrated on the tablescape, the artist’s personal view of the table set at lunch or dinner, with the meal half-eaten; the table filled with a pitcher of flowers, the daily mail, a tin of cookies-the stuff of life, all lit by sunshine that enters the window behind the table; the table as a stage for life’s rituals. In her new tablescapes, Brady takes color to a new level, pushing its intensity, pulling its contrasts and enhancing our perception of reality by the heat of her palette.

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