Watermarks

Following her art education at Paier College of Art, watercolorist Carol Matyia Ross embarked upon a career as an illustrator, but also meanwhile found the need to develop her own personal studies from nature, a subject which she has spent much time researching and which she remembers as meaningful to her since childhood. Her delicate renditions of flowers, from bud to seed, fruit ripe and lustrous, and vegetables fresh from the garden plot, have found a growing following of collectors from the US to Japan, and a growing demand for her original art pieces and numbered limited edition prints.

For many years, Carol was reluctant to exhibit or publish her works, until the artist Robert Heindel and his wife Rose prompted her to approach galleries and to release her very first prints, "The White Pansy" and "The Blue Pansy." Both editions sold quickly at a show of her work in London, England, at The Red Dot Gallery in the Wansworth Commons area. Her work has also been shown recently at the Bethel Arts Junction.

Ms. Matyia Ross cites Andrew Wyeth and Avigdor Arikha as her most inspirational and favorite artists. To her, both convey a critical individuality of work that carries their personal mark. It is this distinctiveness which Carol both consciously and subtly works to capture: In each study of individual floral form she builds harmonized organic structures; her color usage portrays the intensity of hue in nature; and her usage of dappled or stark surrounding spaces in the background -- generate and frame a depth of field of soft shadowed iridescent surfaces.

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