TEXAS ARTIST former PHILLY SCIENTIST: FAQs

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"I began very accurate, meticulous drawing at 4 y/o after my sister Helen's death. I temporarily masked the pain in workaholism.

Watercolor was my timeout therapy. I got centered, balanced and understanding. I learned to see. Yet,  I am nobody. HalleluYah!

"I am of Burgundy (French)-German ancestry, likely Burgundian.

My kinfolk sailed to the American colonies in 1740 as Burgunds, landed in Baltimore, Maryland as John Jacob Burgoon, settled next door to Charles Carroll of Carrollton near Frederick, Maryland, last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, in honor of whom I'm named, who enlisted in General George Washington's Continental Army. His elder son moved into Hell's Half Acre in Fort Worth, TX in 1850. I flew into DFW in 1984. My Phi Beta Kappa Irish Pediatrician mom is first generation American.

She was a trophy wife who taught at CHOP, University of Pennsylvania.

My doctor dad was a Navy battlefield physician in the Third Tide on Dog Green, D-Day, 1944, then sailed as Chief Medical Officer on APD-78

(USS Bull, DE-693) in the Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

I am here because Navy SEALs (UDT-14) splashed anything that came near Pop's boat and kept it unharmed. Sixty years they were married. His nightmares ended when he died from a fall at 91 y/o.

He was a beloved CVIM medical volunteer.

A Rear Admiral (Upper) taught me to tie knots in our dining room!

My best friend was son of a CPO, our veterinarian. He was catcher on my Little League Baseball team - I was the Right Fielder. He matriculated with M.I.T. in optical physics as a 10 y/o.

"I became a Junior Curator at ANSP as a 5 y/o. I became an aquatic insect specialist at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), ground zero for environmental consulting under renowned Dr. Ruth Patrick. I was a Principal Investigator in Limnology & Ecology on contracts with BP, Proctor & Gamble, Potomac Electric, Scott Paper, and Washington (DC) Suburban Sanitation Commission.

I grew up around horses, horsemen and Olympic champions.

I've been a wrestler, tennis player, side horse gymnast, assistant SCUBA instructor, track sprint bicyclist - Alternate to Nationals 1st year -

I took up field photography as a 7 y/o and later shot for American City Business Journals, etc., corporations, sports, civic events, ...

"I studied painting in Europe, Castilian Spain to be exact.

I began watercolor painting on a whim at 43 y/o - when invited in mid-May 1994 by esteemed Spaniard Alcaraz to learn to do what he did;

Paco did two-man exhibitions with his housemate Picasso

on Montmartre in Paris, France. He is held by the world's finest

art museums: Le Louvre, El Prado, and NYC's Metropolitan.

I didn't know anything about Alcaraz at the time. I just went

like a moth to a flame, trusting that it was right to do.

I was at the edge of a bungee jump platform, lept forward and

caught an American Air flight to Madrid; It was July 3rd.

(See the Perfectly Loved page on this website)

A landed Brazilian heiress arranged my tutelage

over a dinner on Cedar Springs Avenue in Dallas, Texas.

At Alcaraz request I gave a painting to a hotel heiress

approved and witnessed by the Brazilian.

My market niche is the billionaire class.

[Oeuvre since July 1994; 750+ watercolors and a journal, Ode to Joy (2013) - with the foreword by Presidential Medal of Freedom Four-star General Tommy Franks (Ret.), knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, former commander of USCENTCOM, introduced by a Nashville Hall of Fame musician, refined by the founder of La Madeleine French country restaurants. 2,600+ 1st Ed.  journals were donated in 1 month -

Leukemia and Lymphoma, Fisher Houses worldwide, CASA, MHMR, Rotary Foundation, HoF QB Dan Marino's (Autism) Foundation.]

"A Phillips heiress paid my way to Spain with the request for

first pick of my paintings when I returned to Texas.

My experience was completely rare in the last 500+ years.

I gave 527 hour-long keynotes my first 12 months back in Texas.

Believe me, a tidal wave of news media showed up.

"Once, in doing a Dallas Botanical Garden series, I rinsed my brush in my stem of Cabernet and impetuously strafed and splattered paintings with my toothbrush. My Holy Land dozen, I tempestuously refined with coarse sandpaper. I slap my thigh with a dripping paintbrush to set its water content.  Methods untaught except by the moment, always with superb results. OMG, sizing actually matters but lessened it's as good as gone - Sizing's discovery made centuries of lawyer's contracts possible.

Multiple times I spoke at a national bookstore chain and was invited to be in the National Writers Harvest - I recited in quite a few coffee shops.

My #1 place to speak was American Business Women's Chapter (ABWA) at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. A day later, I received a call for an appointment from a leading philanthropy consultant. Wow!

"I did a Texas Rangers AA RoughRiders painting for the Dallas Credit Union Association to benefit Children's Miracle Network.

I did a Ft Worth high school fundraising piece for a PGA Tour Champion - His wife called me at 6AM to mirthfully say that at that moment he was rearranging their furniture around her surprise gift.

I can tell plenty of stories.

"One of my mentors was a Retired MG serving on the Board of Belo Corp. He was a USMA and M.I.T. graduate. Another was a sinker slider pitcher from the Milwaukee Brewers alongside Mark Ciardi (Miracle, The Rookie, The Underdog, Secretariat, ...). Another was EDS founder, the world's first billionaire, multibillionaire Ross Perot, Sr. of Dallas.

"My favorite colors: Cerulean blue, Navy blue, Ocean blue,

Sage and jewel-like Forest green and Ferrari red.

"Former USCENTCOM Commander, Four-star General Tommy Franks penned the foreword to my 1st book, Ode to Joy (OTJ). I attended General Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two Knight Commanders, Knights of Malta. 'Westie's' wife, Kitsy Westmoreland, corralled me for a picture.

I received a letter from SM Juan Carlos I The King of Spain.

"One of my watercolors is between 2 original Picasso oils and a Chagall

on an international businessman's cattle ranch in Texas.

I have a very powerful memory of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' home

cherry-picked art collection in Merion, Pennsylvania -

Vincent van Gogh's, Matisse's, Picasso's, Cezanne's, Mondrian's, 

Pollock's, ... Later, I toured Fallingwater on Bear Creek in Pennsylvania.

I saw Charlie Russell's Paper Talk exhibit at the Amon Carter in

Fort Worth. A lasting impression. Wow, wow, wow".

TEXT Carroll @ 214-799-3125 - YOU can do it!

Make an offer Carroll won't refuse. EFT.

(As appropriate, IRS Tax Exempt status letter.)