Deb McCarroll
Deb McCarroll has exhibited nationally and her work is featured in numerous private collections, including 5 paintings in the Seattle Paramount Hotel permanent collection. She was awarded ‘Best Painting’ in the Still Point Art Gallery’s juried competition, Earth Water Fire Air: Our World. She was the cover artist in the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) On the Natural juried exhibition, as well as a featured painting in the Ryan James Fine Arts gallery’s Visual Impressions juried show. McCarroll is a member of Artist Trust and Women Painters of Washington. She enjoys ongoing representation through Gallery 401 in Camas Washington.
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“My painting process often begins by surrendering control, letting gravity guide rain across water-based acrylic paint, leaving a pattern of droplets and rivulets, merging intention with chance. A layer of brass leaf is laid over this background. Corrosive chemicals are then introduced. These oxidized metal layers speak to decay and renewal—an urban landscape slowly reclaimed by nature.
Through this interplay of materials and processes, I explore our collective urge to leave marks that outlast us—raindrops in paint, corroded leaf, scattered sand, charred remains. These unconventional techniques reflect the belief that beauty emerges at the intersection of the organic and the geometric, the wild and the constructed. These works consider the indelible traces we etch on the world and the ways in which nature answers in kind.”