UPCOMING EVENTS 2020 and beyond...

Oh The Places You'll Go
Featured artist Upstairs Art Gallery, Healdsburg Oct 26 - Nov 22 2020

Sonoma County artist, Carolyn Wilson, presents Oh, The Places You’ll Go, mixed media and collage works that explore favorite travel locales.   Travel and exploration are favorite activities and a source of artistic inspiration for the artist.   With travel now on hold, take a seat and join us for some armchair traveling as the artist revisits places with memories, sparking dreams of days when we are all free to roam the earth again.  Explore numerous favorites including Yosemite, Carolyn’s homeland, England, France, African safari adventures.
A lover of textures, Carolyn specializes in creating collage that has a rich tactile surface, with partially hidden layers that create a sense of mystery and history.  Her surfaces emerge using watermedia, such as watercolor and acrylic ink, on rice paper.  She is happiest when surrounded by a mountain of hand colored papers, with glue and brush in hand.
“Communicating more than what is visible on the surface, my collages begin life in an abstract way, then grow into something more recognizable.  Using ephemera, such as maps, printed words, letters and postage stamps collected on my travels, my art is literally imbedded with my life story.  You often need to step up and take a close look to discover these hidden surprises,” said Wilson.
Wilson has participated In Sonoma County Art Trails Open Studios since 2014.  Paintings by the artist have been published in two books: “The Encyclopedia of Watercolor Techniques,” by Hazel Harrison (UK, 2018) and the “New Encyclopedia of Watercolor Techniques,” by Hazel Harrison (USA, 2010).

Upstairs Art Gallery, 306 Center Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448. (707) 431-4214.
​Open daily: S & S: 11am – 6 pm; M-F: 11am-3pm
www.upstairsartgallery.net    

Highland Lakes 20" x 10"

Yosemite Valley Winter 18" x 14"

SebArtsVirtual Open Studios (SAVOS)
September 1 -31 2020

• Opening reception Tues September 1st 5:30pm join here via zoom
• My studio will be open (in real life) 2 weekends Sept 5/6 and Sept 12/13 10am -5pm, and by appointment at other times. All art will be displayed outside. Please wear your mask.
• Studio location:  1489 Schaeffer Road, Sebastopol  (big, open backyard)
• Studio phone: (707)824.1811
• email: cazzacolors@gmail.com
• Contact me for virtual visits by appointment via your favorite video chat platform (Zoom/Facetime/What's app etc) any time during the entire month.​
• ​Online gallery featuring 138 Sonoma County artists at sebartsvirtual.org and my personal artist page featuring 6 pieces for sale  https://sebartsvirtual.org/artists/wilson/​

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SebArts Virtual Open Studios - a new program of Sebastopol Center for the Arts.

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SebArts Virtual Open Studios - a new program by

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Studio aerial view

Studio and Outdoor art display pictures from 2019

• Upstairs Art Gallery, 306 Center Street, Healdsburg, CA. Featured Artist Sept 28- Oct 25 2020
• Santa Rosa Symphony offices , 50 Santa Rosa Ave #410, Santa Rosa , CA- ongoing
• Dr Fichman MD office, 678 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol , CA- ongoing
• Finley Community Center, Santa Rosa. Artists 9Group exhibit. August 31- Oct 16 2020 - postponed.

2021

• Balletto Vineyards, 5700 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA. August 11, 2021 - October 6, 2021. Reception August 15, 2021
• Screamin' Mimi's,  6902 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, CA, October 6, 2021 - December 1, 2021

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PAST EVENTS

Sonoma County Art Trails Open Studio Tour 2019

Studio 100,
​Carolyn Wilson,
​1489 Schaeffer Road, Sebastopol

2 weekends. October 12 -13 and 19 - 20 2019.
Open 10-5 each day.
https://sonomacountyarttrails.org/
Download the guide here or pick up a printed version at many galleries and retail locations vountywide,

Madikwe Majesty ©Carolyn Wilson, mixed media, 16" x 20"

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• Favorite Things .Sebastopol Center for the Arts., 282 S High St, Sebastopol, CA. April 5 - May 12 2019

• Apple Blossom Art Show 2019. April 13 and 14 2019 by Art Workshop of W.Sonoma County (AWS) at Sebastopol Center for the Arts (auditorium)

• African Adventures - Featured Artist at Upstairs  Gallery, 306 Center Street, Healdsburg, CA. April 1 to April 28 201   Read  press release here
• ​Collage and Mixed Media at Corrick's, 637 4th Street, Santa Rosa. November 2nd - 30th 2018

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Sonoma County Art Trails. October 13-14 & 20-21 2018

Toby's Tulips ©Carolyn Wilson, Mixed Media, 12''x 12"

Carolyn Wilson (Studio #88),
1489 Schaeffer Road, Sebastopol (nearest cross street Cunningham Road)
Open to the public two weekends October 13-14 and  20-21 2018
10am - 5pm
(707)824-1811
Follow the blue signs along the roads to find your way to the open studios. All are identified by their studio number. Look for 88 to find me.

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Art Workshop - Apple Blossom Art Show.
April 20-22 2018 
Sebastopol Center for the Arts (auditorium)

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Painted Violin Auction - An Evening in Vienna. Saturday April 14 2018

My art violin, featuring Fountaingrove Round Barn, is being auctioned  by live auctioneer on Saturday April 14th 7-10pm. :
More than 20 broken and unplayable instruments were turned onto unique one-of-a-kind  and creative works of art.Buy your event tickets online here. $25 each.
Location: SRJC Shone Farm, Forestville.
Music by the Youth Orchestra String Quartet, waltz lesson and dancing, dessert, champagne, silent and live auction.
Funds benefit Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra - summer concert tour to Vienna and Budapest.
ps- AUCTION RESULT: ROUND BARN VIOLIN SOLD FOR $1,250

Painted violin by Carolyn Wilson will be auctioned April 14 2018.

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Small Works Show at Graton Gallery. January 2018

2 of my paintings are in this great 'little' show

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Artists 9 group show at Santa Rosa Metro Chamber, 50 Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa.
November 17 2017 thru March 2018.

Artists 9 have been meeting regularly for  for  6+ years.   This exhibit showcases the diversity and creativity of nine Sonoma County artists, who's individual artistic journeys are richer for the sharing of knowledge and ideas with each other.
Participating artists - Monica Lee-Boutz, Carolyn Wilson, Wendy LaLanne, Rose Baker, Sharon Daniels-Duerr, Diane Luiz, (not pictured Mary Ruggles, Suzanne Scheer, Linda Way)

Artists 9 (well 2/3rds of us - missing 3!)

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SONOMA COUNTY ART TRAILS 2017
Open Studios

🔥🔥🔥🔥 Update 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Due to the devastating fires that have rocked our community these past few days, Art Trails  was postponed a week, but is still happening.
New dates are
October 21-22 and 28-29
10-5 each day
Please come out and visit -  131 studios will be open.
I am donating a % of sales to various local Relief Funds.
As a way to help our fellow artists who lost everything, the Sonoma County Art Trails Artist Relief Fund has been established.
For up to date information on all studios, revised maps and monetary donations  www.SonomaCountyArtTrails.org

Fountaingrove Round Barn ©Carolyn Wilson. Mixed media. 7"x7"

Many have a soft place in their hearts for this historic Sonoma County landmark. Tragically, Fountaingrove Round Barn burned to the ground on October 9 2017.
The original painting just sold, but will still be available to view at my open studio during Art Trails.
I have donated cash to the value of 100% of the purchase price to the Art Trails Artist Relief Fund.
I am currently taking orders for fine art giclée reproductions of the painting, the income from which will also be donated to fire relief efforts.
Please contact me if you would like your own copy as a keepsake of the Round Barn. Prices $50 and up.

Joyful Spirit ©CarolynWilson 2017. Mixed water media and collage on canvas 12"X12"

COLLECTORS GUIDE

CAROLYN WILSON

Mixed Media Artist

Art Trails is a way to see incredible art, meet the artists in studios scattered over the entire County, and tour the beautiful Sonoma County countryside all at the same time.

http://sonomacountyarttrails.org/

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I am also participating in 2 Art Trails Preview exhibits:
The main preview exhibit at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472  September 26 - Oct 23  2017.
Opening reception Thurs Sept 28 6-8pm
and
satellite preview exhibition at Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza Street, Healdsburg. Sept 23- Oct 22 2017. Opening reception Saturday Sept 23 5-7pm

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Solo show "Pieces of Me" - July 2017. Healdsburg.
Mixed aqua media and collage paintings.

©Carolyn Wilson. Royal Mail. Mixed aqua media and collage on canvas. 12 x 6 x.75 inches $325

Featured artist, Upstairs Art Gallery, Healdsburg.  July 2017.
Reception July 8 5-8pm.

Full of personal history and layers of meaning, British expatriate Carolyn Wilson's current series of collage pieces capture aspects of her experience living and traveling in England. She says, "Communicating more than what is merely visible on the surface, my latest collage work incorporates ephemera, such as maps, printed words and postage stamps. The work is embedded with fragments of my life story - pieces of me. The mementos might end up being only partially visible beneath layers of paper, or completely hidden, but their inclusion is important to my creative process and the evolution of a piece. The viewer needs to take a close look to discover them."

Carolyn's collage work has a tactile, fabric like quality, and contemporary style framing of paintings on canvas or wood panels eliminates the need for glass, allowing viewers to enjoy and even touch the rich surface textures. Many of Carolyn's new works are small in size, although equally as creative and detailed as her larger paintings.

She stays fresh and challenged in her creative approach by experimenting with new materials, introducing elements of risk, unpredictability, problem solving and playfulness. She uses a variety of aqua media, (meaning anything dissolved with water) such as watercolor, acrylic, inks and gesso in combination with collage elements of found or hand colored rice papers.