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"My world known doctor dad, son of a banker, demanded disciplined excellence and expected immediate virtuosity. He was an active battlefield doctor on D-Day and in the Pacific. My University of South Dakota PBK mom was also a doctor who signed me up in the Junior Curators Club at Academy of Natural Sciences - I was a 5 y/o.

budding young scientist who played in the woodland stream below our 3-story fieldstone home built by Welshman Griffith Jones in 1751.

Naturally, I blazed my own path, as an artist-scientist.

"I was given a Sigma Xi stipend for my Honor's Thesis and worked on an NSF study. I QUIT: An Entomology Masters and an Ecology PhD, and two MBAs, BUT grazed in research libraries. Nope, I didn't go to the Royal College of Art --- SCAD, Yale, SAIC or Rhode Island,

But a uniquely rarer school classroom.

"I'm curious but no history buff. I was named after my dad and his dad in honor of our next-door neighbor, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of our Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Our newly wed patriarch, a cordwainer, sailed into Baltimore, MD from Burgundy, France in 1740. I am a Frenchman on my dad's side and 3rd generation orange Irish on my mother's Smiley-side via Quebec, Canada.

"A Brazilian heiress, Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, granddaughter of José Agostinho Pereira da Cunha co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (CRF) whose life-sized statue adorns the front of the rowing/soccer clubhouse, arranged my studies with Spaniard D. Fco. Alcaraz, artist to kings and queens, superstar actors and Hall of Fame pro athletes - France's Louvre, Spain's El Prado, NYC's Met, the Palace at Versailles, the private collection of Long Island's Walter Chrysler, Jr., ... An Oklahoma oil heiress paid my way to Spain with a proviso she'd get the first pick after I returned to Texas. A cutting horse-loving, oil heiress paid my way to Spain provided 1st pick when I returned - She was a Hockaday and SMU grad married to a famous Dallas Cowboy.

"I was invited to Four-star General William Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary on Queen Mary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two knight commanders of priories of the Knights of Malta,

who reported to the Pope in Rome, Italy.

"I got letters from Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, The King of Spain, ... Bob Hope's wife Delores Hope, and others.

"Former USCENTCOM Commander, Four-star General Tommy Franks penned the foreword to my 1st book, Ode to Joy (OTJ),

which shared a Leadership Institute bookshelf with the autographed autobiographies of former POTUS 'W', PM Thatcher, SECDEF Rumsfeld, and General Colin Powell and General Franks. The world's first billionaire, multibillionaire Ross Perot, Sr., founder of EDS consulted on Ode to Joy; A First Edition was seen on his daughter's desk in the ARCO building in Plano, TX.

"'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.'  I global business owner told me. You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if he was the Crown Prince bidding on  Leonardo da Vinci's $350,400,000 Salvator Mundi in 2017.

Think ROI. Think image. Think media.

Don't get scooped!

"My oeuvre of 750+ artworks began upon the loss of my sister, Helen, when I was 4 y/o and ended with my atelier demo Following the Cloud.

I just quit and this website goes away early next year.

Tell a friend, tell an acquaintance".