Clarksburg painter Debra Lynn Carroll creates large, textured contemporary landscapes of Southern Georgian Bay, bringing nature to life through rich, vibrant colour
The resident artist of Loft Gallery Inc. in Clarksburg, Debra Lynn Carroll paints in her studio adjacent to the gallery and opens her studio to the public during the local artist studio tours on Victoria Day and Thanksgiving weekends. Born in Nova Scotia, Debra travelled extensively and settled in Toronto in 1988. She has been a full-time professional artist since graduating from the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) in 2000, selling her work through solo exhibitions, large Toronto venues such as the Toronto Inside Art Expo and the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, and several galleries in the Toronto area.
She opened Loft Gallery in 2006 after relocating to The Blue Mountains (Debra’s sister, Heather Carroll, is the new owner of Loft Gallery Inc., allowing Debra to focus solely on her painting).
Loft Gallery Inc. is currently the exclusive representative of Debra’s original, textured, large oil paintings. Southern Georgian Bay is the subject of many of Debra’s contemporary landscapes, in which the energy of nature comes to life through her use of rich, vibrant colour, creating images of enduring beauty and elegant splendour. Viewers feel as if they could walk into the paintings – accomplished, in part, through the large-format composition, textural surfaces and a three-dimensional effect she creates that brings the foreground closer to the viewer. Over the past decade, Debra has inspired many artists to paint large, textured landscapes, leading Art Folio founder Garo Altinian to dub her influence “the school of Carrollism.” ❧
