Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Carolyn Lamuniere. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Carolyn, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I always painted, I never thought of doing anything else. but I never really went beyond painting for myself. I never thought of making a living. I majored in Art History at Skidmore College, and that has become the basis of everything I have done. I never studied painting, I just did it, and if I needed inspiration I just went to what had been done. I particularly like Scandanavian art of the early 20th c as well as the Fauves and Gotto of the Early Renaissance. I was in Marblehead , MA and my first real painting made the cover of Better Homes and Gardens. Then I won a first in the Marblehead Summer Arts Festival, then was accepted at the DeCordova Museum’s show for the best New England aAtists under 30. Harris Peel from the Peel Gallery in Danby, VT saw my work there and asked me to join the gallery, the rest is history. I became a full time artist making a living.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I totally work with galleries, I am not a business person and have no desire to be one. I don’t sell privately. I moved to Santa Fe, NY over 30 years ago. I stayed with the gallery in VT until the hurricane forced them to close. I was with Convergence Gallery here for 24 years until the building sold and the owners retired. I was also with Hand Artes for 30 years until the owner died. Now I am with 716/Susan Eddings Perez. That is my story. I am not an aggressive promoter of myself, i just want to paint and be left alone. Any clients I have come through the galleries.
I don’t know what to say about what people should know, I hope they can have a feeling about my paintings, a sense of the power of light and shadow. I love the light on forms, buildings, empty spaces. There is a mystery about what light and shadow create. A power that goes beyond the everyday. People say the light changes the mood, that my paintings are spiritual and peaceful without being obvious. I find peace painting. I can be tense and I paint and all the tension goes away. I never paint people, they get in the way of direct contact with the mood. Viewers notice people first, i want to go beyond that.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding things and first doing the painting, although I have to say it can also be frustrating. Creating is never a straight line, always changes, always never quite making the reality what is the vision in the mind. I feel really good when people like my paintings.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

Yes, books for sure, art books. I don’t think of myself as an entrepreneur. I just do it. I have answered many of the questions in other essays, but what I have not mentioned is the very large amount of time I have spent in France. I am highly influenced by the culture. I paint rooms, windows views through windows, What is outside comes from what i see from the windows in my house, but the rooms themselves come from France.

Contact Info:

• Website: fineartamerica
• Instagram: Carolyn lamuniere

Image Credits

I painted them.