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Photo Credit: Kamriell Welty Photography
Bio
The Beginning
Brock was raised in the Pacific Northwest in the unique Skagit Valley. This lush, coastal corner of Washington State is alive with agriculture as well as artistic culture, which drew Brock's parents to the area in 1985. Her father, Joel Brock, cultivated a successful career as a landscape painter and included his girls in his supply trips to Daniel Smith in Seattle, his bustling gallery openings at the Edison Eye, and in his daily paint practices at the kitchen table.
When Carly went to college, she initially chose a path to become an art therapist, but upon her father's passing in 2013, was inspired to pursue studio art full-time. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Painting from the University of Puget Sound in 2016 and went on to teach art at several non-profit organizations in Los Angeles. A big move was made to South Lake Tahoe in 2021 to pursue painting full-time.
Since moving to the mountains, Brock has been exploring ways to showcase her art in ways that add to her professional career as a painter as well as create accessible opportunities for people to own original art. Socializing with the community around the theme of art is one of her favorite activities.
Her first gallery debut in 2022 was an ode to her father and her hometown. She is now exploring how to celebrate the Northwest landscapes that have been her inspiration for so long in addition to new inspiration found along the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.
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Statement
My work honors landscape for landscape's sake, just as pioneering Romantic and Impressionist painters did in the 19th century when it was bold to paint nature as the main subject. What captures my attention most in a landscape is when a certain atmosphere is created through cast light. Not only is it beautiful to the human eye, but it's also a suggestion of something bigger than us. The lively, clouded skies, earthly materials found in farmlands, and the electric glow of Golden Hour feeds a spiritual part of me that is better described through paint than words. I hope to make my paintings hint at something that touches the soul, like nostalgia or wonderment, through the use of light and color.
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