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Karole Marois

The Crossing

About Karole Marois

Born and raised in Ottawa Canada, Karole Marois is a contemporary figurative painter based in Prince Edward County. Her large studio windows overlook Lake Ontario, a constant source of inspiration for her waterscape paintings.

A Fine Arts graduate of Ontario College of Art (now OCADU), she also holds a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy, and a computer animation diploma from Sheridan College.

Karole is an ardent explorer of the compelling human-nature connection in her work. The innate emotional bond and attraction humans have towards water form the core of her latest series of paintings. Informed by her personal love for water , her role as a swimmer and sailor, she seeks to express the magic and healing power of water.

Karole’s technique, much like water, is fluid, merging different elements in her composition using layers of transparent acrylic washes, and flowing brush strokes. The transparent figures in her paintings evoke themes of memory, longing and reflection, thereby providing a feeling of timelessness and transience.

She has acquired substantial recognition for her work, garnering grants from various arts councils, exhibiting her pieces extensively, and making her way into numerous private and public collections in Canada and abroad.

Karole is represented by Trinity Galleries in Saint John NB and Britton Gallery in Bracebridge, ON. Locally, she enjoys participating in various exhibitions, such as the Art in the County annual juried show, where in 2016 she won a juror’s award for her painting Devil’s Picker.

In the midst of engaging in her creative pursuit, Karole Marois certainly has not lost sight of the broader societal context. Echoing her personal beliefs and values, her work underscores the significance of preserving our bond with nature and cherishing our fundamental interconnectedness with our surroundings.

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