Caroline Adams

Caroline grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She received her BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001, then she spent three years studying and teaching printmaking and bookmaking at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Greece. She also spent two years in Quito, Ecuador, four years in Frankfurt, Germany, and Bogota, Colombia painting and teaching. Caroline has shown at numerous galleries worldwide, including Metaxa Gallery in Paros, Greece; Ileana Viteri Gallery in Quito, Ecuador; Galerie M50 in Oberursel, Germany: Prudencia in Bogota, Colombia; Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; Shelburne Art Center in Vermont; Design Supply in Birmingham, AL, Somerville Manning Gallery and Hardcastle Gallery in Delaware; and Calloway Fine Art & Consulting in Washington, DC.
Caroline has lived in Washington, DC on and off since 2003 while not abroad. As of summer 2023, she and her family are back in Washington.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My landscapes are paintings and prints meant to give a degree of ambiguity that allows them to provoke a sense of familiarity and calm without presenting a specific location. Sea, land, and sky. These most basic elements of the natural world captivate me. A band of light dances across the surface of the water. A shadow defines the edge of a mountainside. A shift of color marks the sky below and above the clouds. These relationships of light, line, and color are my experience of a landscape, and they return when I sit in my studio to paint. These paintings come from simple ingredients: memory and imagination, sea, land, and sky.