Carol Caradimos Biography

Carol Caradimos received her Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth and her Master’s degree in Educational Media & Technology from Boston University. Apart from a dozen undergraduate fine arts courses, Carol is primarily a self-taught pastel artist of four years. Time spent painting beachside in her native Cape Cod, and in her studio near Buttermilk Bay on the Upper Cape, has led Carol out into the professional artist’s world; a dream that she rekindled after working as a marketing communications writer in Boston and in Melbourne, Australia.

Carol began pastel painting to present her parents-in-law with a gift before she left Australia in 2002 with her husband. From then on pastel painting became her passion. This spawned a one-time chance meeting in Bermuda with Master pastel artist Sharon Wilson, whose expert advice and tips accelerated Carol’s proficiency with pastels, and inspired her to stick with a medium often described as “difficult to learn.” Carol continues to enjoy working in pastels, which she finds invaluable to the process of mastering color, and well suited to the often quickly changing light of the Cape Cod landscape.