HEADLINE

"The two most important days in your life, are the day you were born and

the day you found out why".

-Mark Twain

The Artist Carroll™

"My art's priced very high and yet

it's a great investment".

THIS FAQ and REMOVES ALL

YOUR UNCERTAINTY.

"I never went to art school. I'm self-taught,

an American artist merging old and new art

the old-fashioned way, using Series 7 sable paintbrushes. I mastered patience,

enjoy being fit and doing negative splits.

"I began drawing meticulously as a 4½ y/o about Christmas after my older sister perished in 1955 on Rebel Hill in Conshohocken, suburban Philly. At 43 y/o, watercolor enriched my wordsmithery

with a prize-winning vocabulary.

"A global business owner apprised me,

'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.' You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if it was Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Yee hah.

FITNESS/SPORTS INFLUENCE

"I've been a Little League Baseball fielder, a Varsity tennis player, a wrestler, a belted martial artist, a velodrome sprint cyclist with an RHR 28 and VO2 max 75 and alternate to Nationals as a newbie racer, gymnast, SCUBA assistant instructor, Scottish country dancer, a 4:08-mile runner - 20 years of sub-sixes at 80% and ladders on the track - I was slow as a lightning fast runner (I was too short for basketball and too small for football,

though I have an extreme pain threshold),

a fast power walker and diet conscious.

As of 1994, I took up watercolor 32 years ago and stuck with diet consciousness and 10k running fitness, then, power walking.

"The idea that the harder you work,

the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement

is made by the man or woman who

works most intelligently".

- Bill Bowerman, University of Oregon Track & Field Head Coach, Co-founder, Nike. Carroll wore thirteen pairs of Waffle Racers annually changing to a new pair every 250 miles and wore Nikes in Spain when he studied with the celebrated international artist Alcaraz (See top photo).

Carroll's 1st running shoes were Onitsuka Tigers.

LAGNIAPPE

"I wear 29W-30L Wrangler cowboy jeans, New Zealand Splits racing shorts and Ts.

I'll always remember the experience of visiting Dr. Barnes home and witnessing his cherry-picked collection.

I'll always remember a field trip to Bowman's Hill as a 5 y/o Junior Curator at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel (Previously, of Philadelphia), where I became a Limnology and Ecology published principal investigator of environmental impact statements (EIS) for British Petroleum, Scott Paper, P&G, Potomac Electric and water supplier, Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission (WSSC).

I'll always remember moving to sunny, hot Texas in 1984, where I singlehandedly built a boutique biz from scratch - before studying WC in Spain 10 years later.

"I see what others do not see.
私は、他人が見えないものを見ている。

Art taught me to see holistically and traditionally, to trust others, to see and to laugh at myself and donate liberally.

"The art on your walls quietly molds your empathy, creativity and ability to see. It's natural medicine at its best.

"Arts patron Kitsy Westmoreland had her son take her picture with me at a black tie aboard the Queen Mary, amidst 40 MOHs, where a Knight Commander, Knights of Malta, who reported to the Pope, invited me to join his cadre of Americans Reagan and Carter, Soviet/Russian Gorbachev and some South American presidents in his distinguished priory ... My WC art attracted world leaders and amazing, influential people.

"Otra vez". "Again". (He said)

- Don Fco. "Paco" Alcaraz

Carroll's favorite film is Miracle (2004, produced by Mark Ciardi, et al. Another mentor was Ciardi's Brewers pitcher sinker-slider teammate.)

"I was named in homage to our Carroll County next door neighbor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776) - We sailed into Maryland on the Lydia from Burgundy, France - where Arches® Aquarelle, my favorite Bright White Cold Press is made. Our patriarch boarded the tall ship as Johannes Jacques Burgund and got off as Burgoon in Baltimore, MD.

One son enlisted under Gen. Washington.

Washington encamped on Rebel Hill on his frigid march to overwinter at Valley Forge, where we lived in the 1950s.

"I know who I am,

how I got here,

and what I want!

My deferred compensation terminated.

I am me, the one and only, and

I Keep Him first".