Carol Herzer's work includes pastel pencil drawings and paintings in oils and acrylics on canvas and watercolor paper. Many of the paintings on canvas are large pieces. She stopped painting in oils in 1979, but continued with large paintings on canvas in acrylics until 1986. Included is a group of paintings of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. A series of over 100 pastels was created between 1973 and 1977. These were done on flocked paper with pastel pencils, which give more definition than soft pastels. Half of them are landscapes. The remainder are inner landscapes with figures and faces. Recent work includes paintings in acrylic on paper. There is a range of themes in all of her work including landscapes, dream landscapes, portraits, and geometric mandalas. Carol usually does not know what will emerge in her paintings. Usually she will develop things over a period of time. Painting since childhood, Carol graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1969 from the University of Washington, Seattle. She studied with Ernst Fuchs in Austria in the summer of 1972, learning the misch technique and later applying its principles to her work with acrylic paintings.

 

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Here are some of my paintings and drawings. Some are expressions of my interests, some are expressions of my own spiritual experiences.