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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

"I was first a member of the Junior Curators Club, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Est. in 1812); I was 5 y/o; A student of Miss Kathie Dugas, 7th-grade art, General Wayne Jr. H.S. (GVSD). She taught me to draw hands; Mr. John C. Peden, 7th-grade science taught the scientific method; Asst wrestling coach; Gregory Pierce, 8th-grade geography teacher taught love of National Parks. BGen Woodrow Kessler USMC (Ret), 11th-grade art appreciation at Great Valley Sr. H.S. (GVSD) - Some obtuse Kessler lessons are evident in my paintings today. He urged me to go to art school in 1968; Advocate, Dr. Myron Anderson, PhD unleashed my interest in aquatic insects, doing an Honor's Thesis and teaching - He wanted me to go to grad school; Master Don Fco. 'Paco' Alcaraz showed me how to do what he did and took me into his home for the summer; I am grateful to Carolyn G. Luhn for her support as I finished this website. Thank you.

"For out of the box thinkers. Watercolor was recognized as an art form in Chinese manuscript painting around BCE 4,000. WC remains prominent to date: J.M.W. Turner, Georgia O’Keeffe, Claude Monet, Audubon, Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Qi Baishi, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Picasso, ... Frank Lloyd Wright.

"They burned boundaries to ash.

None painted pretty pictures to go with rich sofas or to fit a room. I've always been surrounded by pretty smart people;

None has a God complex.

"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 - Hey. I'm just a fast, highly focused, adrenaline-flooded, gun-jumping, relaxed sprinter at heart calm at the core!

Steps to an unignorable Truth.

"I was making precise, detailed drawings

and played with color when I was 4½ y/o.

My Phi Beta Kappa mom and internationally sought dad, who had a specialty hospital built for him by the family that built Brooklyn Bridge, and Burgoon progeny paid a price for their PTSD. My parents wanted a scientist -

I'm a painter-poet-philosopher".

WATERCOLOR is a WILD BEAST only the bold and elite dare to master.

WC requires a different way of seeing, thinking and creating to make it sing multiple octaves. WC is much more difficult than oils. People say WC is "unforgiving" BUT, Carroll makes sing. 

The smartest money knows wealth isn't stocks or real estate ... it's owning pieces of a mind that chose to lead and refused to follow the herd.

   My art isn't just for the wealthy to hoard or

   the elite to debate. It's for every soul to feel, to reflect, to live, to see with refreshed eyes. It's meant to teach, to be shared, AWESOME by nature, naturally. I'm just a boy still playing in the woodland stream below our Piedmont home, near Philadelphia, PA.

"It was a Brazilian lady, granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, 1895, who arranged my study

with Don Fco. Alcaraz.

Helena was a woman of patience, of wealth, of presence. She reached out across the ocean to ensure the training of this up-and-coming artist. She contributed a woman's touch to art history.

She was my patron saint of possibility.

PENETRATION

"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.

I began drawing Northwest Arkansas

with Prismacolor in 1991.

"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,

Ode to Joy (Beethoven's Ninth; Many of my watercolors were made while listening to

WRR Classical 101.1 FM).

"A Hall of Fame musician introduced us.

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. 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 sinker-slider pitcher laughing said, 'I threw one too many pitches to Barry Bonds' - I realized, to be a champion pitchman, a salesman, you needed to make pitches that the prospect could crank into a towering homerun, ... I slept in my car, on friend's sofas, and lived in a homeless shelter. Sometimes I painted both sides of a sheet of paper, swinging for the fences like Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Willie McCovey, ...

I'd been a RF and SP in Little League Baseball.

... I wrestled 5 years, played tennis, raced bikes on the banked track (RHR 28 and est. VO2 max 75, ran distance (PB 4:08 mile), ... race walked and power walked. In retrospect, I'd developed discipline, precision and endurance to paint.

"I got good genes.

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; They didn't have starting blocks. He was a professor at Temple University and University of Pennsylvania medical schools and had a huge private practice on the Main Line. Dr. B died at age 91; He learned Spanish to talk with his CVIM patients. He loved his wife, Jane, people and

'The fine art of medicine'.

"My doctor mom's doctor dad died of leukemia during the Dakota Dustbowl and Stock Market Crash. She earned her own way through college and medical school, was Board Certified in Pediatrics, was Dr. Bill Nelson's North American Pediatrics first editor, taught at Children's Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, and was Bd. Cert. in Dermatology before joining my dad's esteemed practice. She was a conservationist. Virginia Jane Smiley Burgoon, MD retired at 65 y/o to play with her grandkids, go to Longwood Gardens, travel and birdwatch".

[Twenty-five years ago, in 1999,

an IQ 160 Yale 3X-MFA (2-Art History/1-Art) watched Carroll paint and stated, "His IQ is greater than mine." and labeled Carroll, "Tiger." Her Classically trained 4-octave Soprano voice danced with angels. Picasso est. IQ 175, Famous Historical Genius IQs] 

"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 Burgoon. They were 100% opportunity seekers. Pioneering Burgoons from Ohio settled in Fort Worth, Texas in 1850;

Burgoons fought in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WW1, WWII, Korean War,

Vietnam, ... 134 years later I flew into Texas, escaped my dad's shadow and old beliefs,

and established my identity - The Lone Star State permeated my artwork. After 42 years in North Texas, I chartered a jet and flew to the wild heart of the Rockies and new adventures.

A peppermint sprig of history ...

"Burgundians lived on Burgundarholmr Island,

Denmark, before returning to the mainland.

Burgundians conquered 4th Century Europe,

fully 1000 years before Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance of the arts and sciences.

"The president of the U.S. sent me a note saluting me for my community service.

I didn't know he was watching. Cool beans.

"I'm a SYMBOLIST. I paint meaning with emotion, not pigments, provoking thought. I hang with Picassos and Chagall on a Texas cattle ranch.

I have an abundance mindset -

"You love what I do, or you don't".