Carol Matyia-Ross lives and works in one of Conneticut's oldest historical towns. Her lovely old house and its gardens are reflrcted in her popular works, Carol has surrounded herself with a truly cottage garden while inside her home collections of gathered objects cover walls and tops like a nature table.
Following college Carol embarked upon a career as an illustrator. Meanwhile she regularly find the need and time to develop her own personal studies from nature, a subject of fondness for as long as she can remember. Her delicate renditions of flowers from bud to seed, fruits ripe and lustous and vegetables fresh from the plot have found an ever growing following from US to UK to Japan. The demand for her original work and her beautifully reproduced signed and numbered editions is flourishing.
For quite a few years Carol was reluctant to exhibit and publish her works until friends, the artist Robert Heindel and his wife, Rose, prompted her to approach gallaries and also to release her very first prints.
Carol cites Andrew Wyeth and Avigdor Arikha as her own favorite, indeed inspirational, artists - both convey individuality of work that is their own mark, "I hope in my own way I can capture just a fragment of such distinctiveness".