shows & auctions

Solo Painting Show
Klatch Gallery
New York City
Spring 2003

Painting Auction
Got Art?
Barrett Art Center
Winter 2001

Painting Auction
Artists on Location
Garrison Art Center
Fall 2001, Fall 2000
Spring 1999

Group Art Show
Golden Reflections
Siddah Foundation
Ontario, California
Fall 1999

Artist's Open Studio
New York City
Spring 1999

Solo Painting Show
Xando Gallery
New York City
Winter 1999

Group Art Show
Provence, France
Summer 1997

biography
Carol Hillson has been painting and drawing since she was a child. She has lived with and loved animals her whole life. (While on her honeymoon she and her husband drove 12 hours in a downpour to rescue 2 beautiful dogs and make sure they were delivered to a loving home.)

Through distinctive pet portraits she combines her passion for portrait painting with her love for pets and animals to offer you a unique opportunity to own an original work of art that captures and honors a moment in the life of your pet and animal friend.

Carol is an accomplished artist and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. She has studied with a variety of artists including Frank Mason at the Art Students League, and Melissa Harris. In the summer of 1997 she studied in the South of France. Carol enjoys exploring a wide range of styles and has mastery of several mediums including oil paint and watercolor. Her portraits capture the character of her pet and animal subjects as well as their likeness.

Her work is owned by collectors and has been exhibited in shows, auctions and galleries in New York City, New York State, Ontario, CA, and Provence, France.

Carol works from her painting studio in New York City. She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Gary and their only cat, Miss Muffin. (Their cat Crackerjack died of FIV/AIDS this June 2004 and their other cat Miss Tiggy passed away in 2002. The 2 dogs she was neighbor and dog-godmother to, Scarlet and Breezy, recently moved to Tuscon, AZ.)