Carolyn Coffey Wallace

Ava, MO - United States

'Our lives are like meandering threads that interlace with the life threads of others in a design of beautiful complexity. I show these 'Life Interlacings' in my art.'

Juried Member * Best of Missouri Hands (Missouri Artisans Association)
Juried in: Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Graphic Art

Our lives are made up of many threads of contact with people, time, and place. This artist feels that art is a spiritual, cultural and scientific discipline.
Wallace�s history is filled with images of her mother knitting. For years her mother would take a strand of yarn and weave it into an article of incredible beauty. Like her mother�s knitting, Carolyn visualizes her life as a meandering thread that overlaps the life threads of others in a design of beautiful complexity.
The 21st century is a time when knowledge is expanding in every direction. The strands of knowledge interlace with our spiritual life threads. Add the ribbons connected to history, and you will be able to visualize the intricacy Carolyn Coffey Wallace is expressing in her work.
Painting, Pottery, Illustration, Drawing, Free-lance, Commercial Art, Mosaic, Murals, Computer Art, Basket-weaving, you name it, Carolyn may try it! She has worked in many art forms and mediums partly because of 33 years of experience teaching high school
art at the Master�s level.
Her personal emphasis has gradually moved to painting and pottery, drawing and computer graphics. Free-lance commission work fills most of her free time, as well as entering art competitions and exhibitions.
Carolyn�s studio is in the beautiful Ozarks Mountain area of Ava, Missouri. Ava is a small town with a nice network of artists and we love our time together. I exhibit and sell my work along with my artist friends, but the real joy for me is when I am in my Zen-like state working on my art. I love each piece as I make them, and they are special and unique to me. Interlaced and overlapping designs are a particular interest to me as they relate to string theory, personal relationships, and the memory of my Mother�s knitting.

My art patrons are another gift to acknowledge, for they all see something worthwhile in my work. They are willing to pay for a one-of-a-kind piece, and appreciate the skill, the message and the love I put into each artwork.