Carol Creel is an artist, a photographer, a teacher, and a traveler. The New Orleans native started painting watercolors in 1980. Her skills have been cultivated through academic training, natural talent, and ingenuity. She attended the University of New Orleans, Louisiana State University, and Baton Rouge Academy of Fine Arts.

Photography plays a roll in Carol’s creativity. She takes many photographs of her subjects to capture the right setting, light, and mood for her paintings. Just as the camera freezes a moment in time so do her colorful paintings of animals, flowers and people.

Teaching is another part of Carol’s work. She teaches watercolor technique three times a week to beginners and advanced students. She also teaches workshops on many subjects including Christmas cards. She creates the painting and gives step by step instructions on how to paint a colorful work of art.

She has been President of the Baton Rouge Art League. An organization which has served the Baton Rouge community for over seventy years. It has made countless contributions of funds and works of art to libraries and museums as well as scholarships for continuing education. The Baton Rouge Art League’s art collection including WPA paintings and are on permanent loan to the Louisiana State Archives.

As a member of the Louisiana Watercolor Society, Carol participated in a program that allowed five artist to create paintings using the same props in their compositions. This allowed the artist to work in her particular style demonstrating her techniques. The paintings were exhibited at the Zigler Museum in Jennings, Louisiana , Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge, and The St.Tammany Art Association in Covington, Louisiana. The idea of the exhibit was to teach the public how five simple objects viewed by five different artist could be interpreted entirely differently.

Carol’s work has been exhibited across the U.S. and Europe. You can see her work on the internet at www.carolcreel.com and in fine art galleries. In Baton Rouge, her work is available at Elizabethan Gallery and in Dallas at Monticello Gallery.