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1. METAMORPHOSIS, Philadelphia-Area, Pennsylvania
"I was making precise, detailed drawings when I was 4ยฝ y/o. Thus, my quest began - I didn't have words to express grief over my older sister Helen's tragic death. The whereabouts of her remains is unknown. There was no funeral and has been no mention of her, until now.
"I was a Junior Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Est. 1812) as
a 5 y/o and was composing photos at 7 y/o.
"I grew up on a 1751 Piedmont horse-estate in the fashionable healing iron-rich, sulfurous springs resort town, Chester Springs, home to Gen Washington's Continental army hospital overwintering at Valley Forge, PA and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
"I'm basically self-taught, an autodidact.
"My watercolor hangs with Picasso oils
on a Fort Worth, Texas cattle ranch!"
- Carroll, INFP-A
2. WATERCOLORS, Spain/Texas
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"I began painting at 43 years old when
Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha arranged my studies with the genius artist Don Fco. Alcaraz who took me into his atelier for the summer and showed me how to do what he did 24/7; Quarter horse-loving Pam Kayof Phillips paid my way to Madrid and Alcaraz; Then, Jimmy Jack Whitaker, multi-Grammy winner, Hall of Fame musician, singer-songwriter, producer, produced by Gary S. Paxton, wrote four #1 hits worldwide, opened or performed with Willie Nelson and Charlie Daniels, introduced me to General Tommy Franks, and calls me his little brother; LtCol Keith Self (Ret), U.S. House of Representatives, former county judge, West Point graduate, 82nd Airborne, Ranger, Master Parachutist, served at USCENTCOM on General Franks staff, helped draft a proposal for Gen Franks (Ret); Bruce Miller, senior pastor Christ Fellowship, mentor, framed and prominently displayed my Holy Land and Book of Luke paintings, and got the Dallas Morning News to come interview me; Retired USAF Capt Jeran Akers, Mayor, Plano, Texas business owner; Major General Hugh G. Robinson, PE, BELO Board member who mentored me and advocated me to BELO assets and Good Morning Texas cohosts, MIT graduate; EDS founder Ross Perot, Sr.; LORAC Chairman, philanthropy consultant Carol Joyce Hinkley Thompson heard about me keynoting to American Association of University Women at SMU and promoted me to her Dallas clients: Ross Perot, Sr., Gen Robinson, Ron J. Anderson, M.D. CEO, Parkland Health & Hospital System etc.; Huntley Paton, publisher American City Business Journals, Dallas; The 500+ audiences around North Texas; Belarmino โBlackieโ Gonzalez, owner and show host KCHF TV-11, Santa Fe, New Mexico; M. Patrick Esquerrรฉ founder of La Madeleine French Bakery & Cafรฉ refined my 1st book, Ode to Joy at his #1 store next to SMU; Dallas Chapter of Credit Unions, ...
'It took a village ...' and now I leave Dallas.
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Oeuvre 1,000+ Artworks
25th Anniversary 2019
"I paint flowers to keep my wrists loose.
I rinsed my brush in my crystal of Cab, used my toothbrush on some Botanical Garden works, sandpapered a dozen bespoke Holy Land pics, tore up stacks of my originals and hundreds of professionally shot 4 x 5's. I sold my purple thistles drawing for $100 just to get it out of my sight - I painted 12 detailed Holy Land images for a custom calendar (400 hours in 20 days) sent gratis to 75,000 top benefactors worldwide of a 400,000-member non-profit in Chicago, IL.
I donated to many non-profits: 65 to 75 original watercolors. I gave Ode to Joy 1st Eds to Miami Dolphins QB Dan Marino's autism foundation. The whereabouts of my paintings and drawings are unknown. I keep no records.
"I use a lot of sky blue, Ferrari red, forest green and sap green, and Winsor Violet (Dioxazine purple) with its undertones for shading and making a composition pop."
[A 160 IQ Yale MFA (Art History), Yale art museum assistant curator, who watched Carroll paint declared that his IQ is greater than hers.
"It was the Brazilian granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo in 1895, who arranged my study with her friend Alcaraz. Helena was a gracious, thoughtful and keenly intelligent lady. She reached out across the ocean to ensure the training of this artist.
"Ode to Joy (Beethoven's Ninth) Many of my watercolors were made while listening to
Nancy Brunson morning host of Girl Power WRR Classical 101.1 FM, Dallas, Texas.
"I paint LOVE, because love isn't soft, it's hard.
I paint LOVE fiercely, wildly, and deeply.
My fingers move with the fury of a prophet
and the patience of a saint.
[My muse is a lovely lyric soprano, whose sweet voice dances with angels, who washes my feet, and loves medium-sized dogs.
She's up early.]
"Four-star General Tommy Franks (Ret), former USCENTCOM Commander overseeing a 25-country-region including the Middle East, penned the foreword to my first book,
A Hall of Fame musician introduced us.
I donated 2,600 full-color throughout, perfect bound, 200-page 1st Eds @ $34.95 each.
"Kitsy Westmoreland had her NY attorney son take her picture with me at a small private dinner aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, attended by 40 Medal of Honors and two
Knight of Malta Commanders who reported to the Pope. I was invited to join a priory with Presidents Reagan, Carter, Gorbachev, and South American presidents. I declined. Arrangements were made by Westy's ADC;
I was the guest of a Knight of Malta oil company president. The dean of neurosurgery, a Knight of Columbus, hosted a private lunch for me in his office. An A.H. Belo Trustee mentored and championed me; As did Ross Perot and his philanthropy consultant. One mentor, a Brewer's sinker-slider pitcher laughing said, 'I threw one too many pitches to Barry Bonds' - Sometimes I painted both sides of a sheet of paper. There were some mighty lean times. FYI, I'd been a RF and SP in Little League Baseball.
Then, ... I wrestled 5 years, played tennis 16+ years, raced bikes on the banked track (RHR 28 VO2 max 75, 40 to 60 miles daily high intensity training, free weights, rope jumped 2 hours 7 days a week), qualified as Alternate to Nationals my novice year; Then, I ran distance (PB 4:08 mile) on 70 to 95 sub-six miles weekly for 20+ yrs; I did 70-minute-Power walks 7 miles daily. Then, I had a stroke or two.
"I WAS BORN IN PHILADELPHIA
BUT GOT TO TEXAS AS FAST AS I COULD.
I wanted to get out of Pop's shadow.
Poppy had been a U.S.N. doctor, Third Tide, on Dog Green, D-Day and Chief Medical Officer on U.S.S. Bull in the Pacific. I'm here because SEALs kept his boat unmarred. He was a front page running back and 53 sec. 440 ft. cinder track runner at Harrisburg Academy in the 1930s before starting blocks. Poppy had been a 3rd Degree Mason, Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. He was a professor at Temple University and University of Pennsylvania medical schools and had a huge private practice on the Main Line, including MLB, NBA and NFL Hall of Fame athletes and a ' Godfather,' mafia mob boss. Dr. B died at age 91; He learned Spanish to talk with his CVIM patients. He built his wife, Jane, a world-class equestrian center next door around a ca. 1732 mansion with a 60-horse barn and hired a New Zealand, FBHS, an Olympic gold medalist to be headmaster followed by a Burghley Horse Trials winner and 2x British Olympic Team member. Poppy loved 'The fine art of medicine.' He was national president of AAD and widely published. He kept everything shipshape and was repeatedly named 'The Doctor's Doctor' by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
At 91 he was reading journals extensively,
spending time with his microscope and taking graduate courses in horticulture and Spanish.
My brunette Mom was Phi Beta Kappa when
she earned her way through college. She worked in the library and typed other's papers to earn her way through medical school.
Mom got straight A's.
"My given name, Carroll, honors our Maryland neighbor, last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
Burgundy, France. Our surname was Burgund
boarding the Colony-bound Lydia in 1740; The Burgunds disembarked as Burgoons. Pioneering Burgoons from Ohio settled in Fort Worth, Texas in 1850.Highland Park and Exall Lake were designed by Philadelphia investors. Burgoons fought in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WW1, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam, ... 134 years after Burgoons arrived in Fort Worth I flew into Texas, escaped my dad's shadow,
old beliefs, and established my identity -
Burgundians lived on Burgundarholmr Island,
Denmark, before returning to the mainland.
Roman soldiers feared them. Burgundians fully conquered Europe 1,000 years before Leonardo da Vinci and the European Renaissance. Burgundians pre-dated the seafaring Vikings and Norse art. Nowadays many Burgundians reside in France and Switzerland.