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 - The Artist Carroll™

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

an artist merging old and new art the old-fashioned way, using sable paintbrushes.

A UNIQUE HISTORY

"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. Welcome aboard.

"If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction."

- Sam Walton, Walmart co-founder

"A blue-blood Brazilian heiress arranged my painting studies with famed Spaniard, Alcaraz. A woman redecorated her office around 40+ of my originals and brought the bride of her #1 client to see the collection; Her guest bought my art!!! as did a PGA, Open champion's bride and Big Pharma heiress. A Quarter horse-loving petroleum heiress, married to a Hall of Fame cowboy and NFL player, had paid my way to study under the master Sr. Alcaraz in Europe with the proviso that she get first dibs when I returned.

"I've taught K thru 8, been a college and graduate teaching assistant, and have taught in college continuing education, and Toastmasters officers. I've keynoted elementary, junior high, high school assemblies, civic, university, corporate and professional speakers' meetings. I was certified as a Science 4-8 teacher, Texas Region 10 ESC. NO ART STUDENTS!!!

(I'd rather try herding stray cats.)

PHILANTHROPY: The 1st Ten Years

"A Texas House Representative wanted me to be the State Artist Laureate. But I didn't keep track of the 50+ news features, 500+ keynotes my first year back in Texas, quietly gave 5,000 signed Arkansas prints to DFW hospital patients and didn't sell via art galleries or exhibit my art. Works were donated to support hospitals, adoption, children's advocacy, LLS, education, ...

I don't know who received them.

FITNESS/SPORTS INFLUENCE

"I've been a Little League Baseball fielder, NRA Bar 2 Sharpshooter, game warden certified Safe Hunter, played Varsity tennis (Haverford College's Hall of Fame tennis/squash coach taught me a see it once-learning strategy), a wrestler, rode side horse, belted in martial arts, was a sprint cyclist with an RHR 28 and VO2 max 75 and alternate to Nationals as a newbie racer. When bicycle sprinting, I toed the line trusting another victory. A racer called my track bike a 'Suicide machine' since I trained on open roads, bolted to the pedals, without brakes. I canoed, backpacked the AT and Anaconda Pintlar Wilderness, was an asst SCUBA instructor, a 4:08-mile and 31:57 10k runner - 20 yrs of sub-sixes at 80% effort - I paint quickly with stamina and endurance.

"I'll always remember the experience of

Dr. Barnes, PhD, MD home and seeing his classy, cherry-picked art 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 (Originally, of Philadelphia), where I became a Limnology & Ecology Division published Principal Investigator. DuPont offered me a job and a PhD at Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina; I declined their offer. I'll always remember JC Peden, 7th-Grade science at GVSD, teaching about a Paramecium overcoming every barrier. I'll always remember 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 South American presidents in his priory. I'll always remember the President of the United States sent me a salutary note after I was named 'Rookie of the Year' out of 1,250 1st year members in Toastmasters' world #1-ranked district. I thought it was a prank and tossed it.

Who'd have guessed he was watching!

ART HISTORY FACTS

Carroll sold his boyhood American stamp collection to fly to Texas from Spain.

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

- Don Fco. "Paco" Alcaraz

"I was named in homage to our Carroll County next door neighbor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776) - We sailed across the Atlantic 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 John Jacob Burgoon in Baltimore, MD in 1740. My kin buck boarded into rough 'n tumble Texas in1850. I followed in 1984.

"A Burgoon fought in every American war,

except the Battle of the Alamo. My doctor dad was in the Third Tide on Dog Green, the deadliest beach on D-Day. I can only imagine how he must've been cursed performing triage amidst cries for help, and charred, smoldering bodies, with sticky blood soaking his clothes and death filling his nostrils. He left his GI weapons shipboard. Then, he deployed as chief medical officer on APD-78 (DE-693) in the Lingayen Gulf (Philippines), Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He demanded excellence and expected virtuosity. Pop was sought by Hall of Fame pro athletes, other doctors and the world's wealthy elite. His patients revered Dr. B. Nonetheless, I was his scapegoat and his cruelty remained. Friends, colleagues, neighbors, his kids and his wife trembled at the mention of him and cursed him. I was astonished what he endured.

He absolutely loved

'The fine art of medicine'.

My pediatrician mom earned her own way through college, Phi Beta Kappa, and had straight A's in medical school, taught at CHOP, etcetera, after her doctor dad died when she was 10 y/o, during the Stock Market Crash and the Dakota Dustbowl. I was their first son and grew up in a world of PTSD and mental and verbal abuse.

"Pop demanded excellence and expected virtuosity, but that wasn't good enough. The truth left me in tears. I was like a frantic bird trapped in a fiery cage and didn't realize the door was open. Helen's death was never a family topic, and I just assumed I'd killed her, tho' I hadn't. I feared an ending like Vincent van Gogh and others. It was a miracle I was alive. Being an expressive artist terrified me, so I became a biologist and was an elite jock and a workaholic, so I was too tired to think about my situation.

A NEW BEGINNING

"I'm moving to an oceanic climate where it rains all year and there are lots of bears.

LOVE, ORANGE & GOLD

"I daily petted a nesting dove in the wild, a snarly German shepherd, a caged black panther, tigers and a bobcat. My life and WCs improve other's lives and the world."