| Specializing in wildlife art and landscapes, Carol Lacey often combines her love of aniumals and the outdoors in her work.
Each of her paintings is extensively researched and prepared from her own resource materials. She owns a large library of sketches, books, phots and video tapes.
With a degree in a fine art from the University of Dayton in Ohio and studies at the Dayton Art Institute, she entered the commercial art field with Yeck Brothers Group in Dayton. Later, she became Art Director for Service Typographers in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1972, Lacey made significant change, going out on her own as a free-lance illustrator while living in Reno, Nevada.
But the wildlife of North America is her first love, and it shows in her work. in 1983 at the Nature Conservancy Annual Wildlife Show in Denver, her painting was judged "Best of Show". There have been numerous other exhibitions including the "Wonderous Wildlife" art show in Cincinatti, Ohio, the Sufari Club International in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Society of Animal Artists Exhibition in Kansas City, Missouri and a Wildlife Show in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
A member of the Society of Animals Artists, Lacey's paintings are in galleries in California, Arizona, Colorado, and New York.
A frequent visitor to game farms, wild animal parks and zoos, Lacey prefers to draw from real life situations. For that reason, she actively travels all over North America, visiting backcountry, studying wildlife habitat areas, sketching and photographing animals in their natural enviroments.
Lacey is caught up in the wonders of wildlife, doing what she loves and loving what she does. |
