Carol Allison
Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carol Allison began her art training at the Siegfried Hahn-Howard Wexler School of Drawing and painting, when she was 15 years old and continued with them for the next seven years. Her studies with Hahn and Wexler were concentrated in the techniques of the 18th Century English Watercolor, and the oil painting techniques of the Old Masters using the lost methods and materials, as researched and developed by the noted expert Jacques Maroger. Major emphasis was placed on drawing and was based on principles and approach of the 19th century French Professor, Lecoq De Boisbaudran who taught many of the well known artists of 19th century Paris and London. These principles were applied to intensive training in still-life and portraiture. To further her art career she studied figure drawing with related anatomy, as well as landscape and floral. There were frequent trips to study in such museums as New York City's Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery in the Washington DC and Museum of Fine Arts Boston. International trips were also taken to study paintings in museums in Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam and London.
From 1978-1984 she co-owned and operated Pinacotheque, Inc. in Albuquerque, a combination of art school, gallery and frame shop. During this time she taught drawing and painting to a number of artists and learned French finishes for picture frames . Here she helped organize exhibitions Maroger medium painters and the first exhibitions of Jacques Maroger, in the southwest. She has appeared in numerous shows in New Mexico and Southwest featuring Jacques Maroger and other well-known artists using the Maroger medium. From 1984 to the present she has conducted classes at her studio, Art Masters Academy, New Mexico Art League and Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute.
In 1989, She taught workshops with Howard Wexler in Rabat, Morocco through a national program for cultural exchange known as DAR America. Through her teaching activities Carol has promoted a more complete understanding of these classical methods to the public both here and abroad. She is capable in both the mediums of watercolor and oil and various subject matter.
Her work has been shown in the Museum Of New Mexico in Santa Fe and the Red River Valley Museum in Texas as well as many state and national juried exhibitions. She has won a number of awards for her work and was chosen as a finalist in national competition sponsored by Artist Magazine in 1993. Her work has been published by Ventura Communications Group in their Micrografx Webtricity book for web site design. In 1999 an adaptation of one of her florals won the national "Stained Glass Artists' Excellence in Design Award".
Description and history of painting methods: ............................................History Room
The Siegfried Hahn Howard Wexler School Of Drawing and Painting,
American Artist Article, March 1976 ...................................................Information on school and drawing and painting methods
Siegfried Hahn's Jacques Maroger letters .................................................................Reply Letter
Maroger Medium, Flemish and Venetian medium recipes...................Maroger Medium Recipes