"A global business owner apprised me,
'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.' You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if it was Leonardo da Vinci's $350+ million Salvator Mundi.
OWN ORIGINAL Carroll's
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"My older sister's sudden death at age six began my art journey and my quest.
I understand and people call it wisdom. Now, I just want to help others. While watercolors are scientific, therapeutic, and entertaining, they can teach you to see; And, I want people to see my watercolors, but who knows how that'll turn out.
"My favorite artist: Vincent van Gogh, followed by Leonardo da Vinci, Homer, ...
I see what others don't.
"I didn't keep track of 50+ news features, 500+ keynotes my first year back in Texas, gave 5,000 S/N Arkansas lithographs to DFW hospital patients - Baylor, Parkland,
Dallas Children's, Cook Children's,
All Saints in Fort Worth, ... Ron Anderson, MD, President & CEO, Parkland Hospital, wanted my artwork in hospital rooms and corridors nationwide, an AWSOM vision.
"I left a Master's program (Entomology at UGA), a Doctoral program (Ecology at DE), and two MBA programs in Texas with class leading A's. I enjoy grazing in research libraries! I gave over 500 keynotes in the first year when I returned to Dallas, Texas from Castilian Spain. A multilingual Colonial Brazilian heiress, schooled in England, arranged my painting studies with European, Don Fco. Alcaraz, a prodigy artist who refused payment - I started out as a freshwater scientist and became a watercolor artist.
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence
nor imagination nor both together go to
the making of genius. Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius".
- Mozart
MENSA estimates his IQ was 150-155.
"She called me a greater 'Genius,' tested IQ 160, was a Yale 4.0 MFA (Art history)
and Yale art museum assistant curator.
She alone watched me paint.
OLD FAMILY HISTORY
"My family name is probably Norwegian, Burgundian, in origin.
They conquered most of Europe. Today, the Kingdom of the Burgunds has shrunk to Burgundy, France and Switzerland. In 1740, Johannes Jacobus Burgund left Burgundy, France, boarded the Lydia and sailed to Baltimore, Maryland as John Jacob Burgoon. He settled in what became Carroll County, MD, named for the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. One of his sons enlisted with General George Washington. I don't know if he encamped in the fields on Rebel Hill, where we lived before we moved to a resort town where Washington's Army hospital was located near Yellow Springs Rd, Charlestown Township, Chester County, PA.