This painting is egg tempera and oil on panel. My landscapes are meant to give a degree of ambiguity that allows them to provoke a sense of familiarity and calm without presenting a specific location. Sea, land, and sky. These most basic elements of the natural world captivate me. A band of light dances across the surface of the water. A shadow defines the edge of a mountainside. A shift of color marks the sky below and above the clouds. These relationships of light, line, and color are my experience of a landscape, and they return when I sit in my studio to paint. These paintings come from simple ingredients: memory and imagination, sea, land, and sky.

Caroline Adams

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I grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I received my BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001, then spent three years studying and teaching printmaking and bookmaking at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Greece. I went on to spend two years in Quito, Ecuador, four years in Frankfurt, Germany, and Bogota, Colombia painting and teaching. I have shown at numerous galleries worldwide, including Metaxa Gallery in Paros, Greece; Ileana Viteri Gallery in Quito, Ecuador; Galerie M50 in Oberursel, Germany: Prudencia in Bogota, Colombia; Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; Shelburne Art Center in Vermont; Somerville Manning Gallery and Hardcastle Gallery in Delaware; and Calloway Fine Art & Consulting in Washington, DC. I have lived in Washington, DC on and off since 2003 while not abroad with my husband, a Foreign Service Officer. As of summer 2023, my family and I are back in Washington.