Caroline A. Doucette’s Studio

 

 

 

118 3rd Avenue NW, Rugby, North Dakota 58368

701.776.6194 *** 701.208.1150

caroline@gondtc.com *** www.carolinedoucette.com

 

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Caroline A. Doucette’s Statement

 

 

 

       I really like to paint flowers. They’re fun and they can be played with.  Originally, I found flowers so simple but then I found I could play with the wonderful colors and shadows and get right down into them like some magical fairy.  I like to use a simple palette of red, blue, yellow, cool, and warm so I can get nice rich, brilliant, vivid, clean colors that will sit on my hot press paper in such a delightful way.  I like to make the leaf curl away and the petal look soft and fuzzy.  It is how the peach has weight and the autumn leaf crunches under foot.  The more I painted flowers, and gardened, the more I viewed myself, and flowers, as survivors, with a quiet strength, that’s bold and has a beauty despite any flaws.  In the flower is the continuous circle of life with the dreams of tomorrow.

      My flags aren’t really that much different than the flowers.  It’s a matter of feel.  Feel the fold roll and dip then tuck under. I started painting them long before 9/11. They’re a part of my family heritage.  My maternal grandfather joined the US Army in WWI for his citizenship, his sons, and my uncles, served in WWII.  My mother was in the Army, during the Koran War, when she met my father, who was in the Air Force.  The Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines each got one of my four brothers.  I, myself, served in the Army at the end of Viet Nam Conflict.

                Caroline