Today we’d like to introduce you to Carolann Price.
Carolann, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I started drawing as a child. Some of my best childhood moments were made in my room doodling or making crafts and listening to audio dramas.
My grandfather is a talented landscape painter. One Christmas when I was about eight he came to visit and gave me an easel and paints. He spent the next few days sitting with me at the kitchen table teaching me to use them. In my eight year old eyes it was like watching God himself paint sunsets and grow trees. I still use that easel.
I think for most artists, creating is more of a compulsion or a need than a choice. I have three children now. My life is full, as all of ours are, of responsibilities and chores and caring for the ones I love. I don’t create as much as I would like in this season, but that dormant need builds up and sporadically bursts into something where nothing existed before.
Most of my work now is on commission through word of mouth or when I can squirrel away a quiet moment to myself. I am always flattered when people find me in my chaos and ask me to draw or paint them something. I have made peace with this version of being an artist, for now, and am becoming grateful for it.
So much of our artistic voice develops not when we are actively creating, but in the moments in between. In the noticing, in the living, in the suffering. I am full of expectancy born of renewed perspectives, stored up moments, and feelings there aren’t yet words for.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Being an artist is part of who you are. It’s woven into the struggle life brings. Life has been kind at times and unkind at others, but the art has always remained.
I’ve chosen willingly to give most of my time and energy to my family, which is at odds with being an artist purely because those resources are so finite. The biggest struggle is creating when there’s nothing left to fuel it.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I specialize in portrait art, mostly drawing and oil paintings, but I paint almost anything. I have completed several murals as well recently.
I am most proud of my ability to capture people. Not only their likeness, but, ideally their personality and feeling. That’s what I’m always chasing.
How do you think about happiness?
My family makes me happy. Creating makes me happy, in all forms.
Being fully yourself and fully loved is a gift not all experience. Putting your soul on display and someone finding it precious feels like heaven. That is the happiest feeling to me.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Carolannprice.com
- Instagram: @carolanncreates
