"The art on your walls quietly shapes your empathy, creativity and critical seeing. You transform traditionally and holistically.

Art, medicine and nature can and do coexist.

Learn to dance on the corpus callosum"!

Born in 1951 at CHOP where his mom taught Pediatrics. His PBK mom's family was medical doctors. His dad was a famous dermatologist seeing MLB, NBA superstars, other doctors, ...

"Dad had a large Benj. West painting behind his desk when director of Pennsylvania Hospital.

They were early environmental conservationists.

Their insurance agent taught me to sketch on a napkin. I grew up in a bookish, innovative, frugal, humble family in a 3-story fieldstone house built in 1751 by the Welshman Griffith Jones a tributary to Pickering Ck., near Pickering Mill.

It was a living bridge between history and the new. I'm a maverick, the Tom Cruise-kind"!

Carroll F. Burgoon, III

"I began drawing meticulously as a 4½ y/o when my older sister perished in 1955 on Rebel Hill in Conshohocken, a suburb of Philadelphia, PA. Watercolor (WC) helped me work through it. I raised money for two kids orphaned when their parent's plane crashed. I had to help. I was about 4 y/o.

I collected insects, was a philatelist, had a compound microscope, camera and grew up watching Cow Town Rodeo. I was a Principal Investigator at The Academy of Natural Sciences (Pre-dated the Smithsonian and the Franklin Institute). When I left the Academy, I want to help people love themselves and as a result take better care of our environment. I loved poking around the woodland stream below our home. I loved canoeing the Pine Barrens, birdwatching, running Valley Forge NP, cycling country roads, hiking the Appalachian Trail, etcetera. I'll never forget the experience of visiting Dr. Barnes home and witnessing his cherry-picked collection. I love Homer's, Marin's, John Singer Sargent's, Audubon's, O'Keeffe's, Copley's, and Cole's watercolors and

Charlie Russell's 'Paper Talk'.

"I have been around animals all my life. I even petted a panther and a wild, nesting dove.

I feel like St. Francis of Assisi!

"My older sister's name was Helen, and it was a Brazilian heiress named Helen who arranged

for me to study WC with Alcaraz in Spain.

"I was named in honor of our Carroll County next - door neighbor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776) - We sailed into Maryland on the Lydia from Burgundy, France -

He was a cordwainer.

We're originally from Burgundarholmr, DEN.

Our patriarch boarded the tall ship in Rotterdam as Burgund and disembarked as Burgoon.

A son enlisted under Gen. George Washington.

"I grew up in the spring-fed hills around rural Chester Springs. In 1984, 'On a Lark' at age 43 y/o, I took up watercolor painting in Cowboy Country, our Eagles' chief rival Dallas, America's Team. Philanthropy has been important to me.

"These shaped my color-loving nature.

I'm not a showman but I am a perfectionist.

"Rare in the last 500 yrs. We dined at a nice restaurant on Cedar Springs in Dallas. I showed Alcaraz my finished Purple Thistles. 'Come to Spain and I'll teach you to do what I do.' 

I was accepted as his first 'personal student'.

How many in 500 yrs of art history?!? 2 or 3?

I see what others do not see plus I have the

best teachers and savvy mentors. A 160 IQ Yale MFA (Art History) labeled me a 'Genius' with a higher IQ than hers. Picasso was 175.

"You wouldn't believe the story of how I learned to paint clouds! Alcaraz was tough. Painting from 6:30AM to 10PM 7 days a week there are stories to tell and then there are the stories behind the paintings and the poems I recited to multitudes live, in the evening news and on television - 500+ times in 12 months!

"#1, I must see 'the landscape' firsthand.

 I process hundreds of concepts in 5 seconds and select the most geometrically correct, topologically and spiritually sound one to sketch. I 'Biz bag' most prelim sketches".

"A DFW businessman told me,

'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my cattle ranch.' "