Carol Walser Robey, MD

Member since 2020

Carol began drawing as soon as she could hold a crayon. She started art classes in middle school at De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. At Harvard College, she created scientific illustrations for her biology professors, her own publication and Biology senior thesis. After college, Carol choose a medical career and worked for 30 years as a pediatrician, in Nashua, NH. She never lost the desire to visually create as one can see in her gardens and woods.

Carol returned to painting with Kevin Dadoly, Stephen Previte, David Curtis, and Mary Minifie during the latter years of her medical career. Carol joined Ingbretson Studio part-time in 2013 and, later full-time, when she retired from medicine in 2015. Now, Carol has her own studio in Hollis, NH.

Primarily an oil painter, Carol paints landscape and still life subjects, especially florals. Her technique is influenced by classical representational and scientific truth. Under the tutelage of Paul Ingbretson, Carol studied the Boston School of Painting’s impressionistic approach to color, value, and edge. Her sense of compositional design is influenced by these same ideals. Carol’s underlying love of nature, antique tools, and her scientific knowledge influences her choice of subject matter. Gloucester’s coastlines and New Hampshire’s countryside are Carol’s preferred subjects for plein air. Floral subject matter comes from her gardens or local wildflowers.

Awards
Second Prize, New England Regional Exhibit at the Guild of Boston Artists, 2019
Honorable Mention, Grass Roots: Emerging Artists, Rockport Art Association and Museum, 2020

Juried Artist Memberships
North Shore Arts Association, 2017
Rockport Art Association and Museum, 2020

Exhibitions
Guild of Boston Painters, Rockport Art Association & Museum, North Shore Arts Association, NH Antique Coop, Whistler House Museum

Carol RObey's Website