Carrie Pearce (1969) was born in Peoria, IL. She has been drawing and painting as long as she can remember. Her earliest memories include a Walt Disney light-up table and asking her mom to draw her pictures as she described them to her.
Carrie's first major inspiration came from Ann Adams, an artist who drew with a pencil between her teeth. At the age of 6, Carrie was amazed at her ability, and tried to duplicated her drawings with and without pencil in her teeth. Carrie attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she graduated with honors. In 2007, Upon seeing DaVinci’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, she declared, “I want to paint like that”. Her paintings can be described as imaginary realism. Although dedicated to the 16th Century techniques of the Masters, she also finds room for the occasional scribble, inspired by children’s drawings. Pearce describes her work as emotional portraits rather than portraits of people. The people are inspired by turn of the century photos that she finds at antique stores and estate sales.
Carrie's work has been featured both nationally and internationally. She is a "Living Artist" with the Art Renewal Center, a website dedicated to the revival of realism in fine art. Her work has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, "When artists paint themselves".
© 2019. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Carrie Pearce. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
Carrie's first major inspiration came from Ann Adams, an artist who drew with a pencil between her teeth. At the age of 6, Carrie was amazed at her ability, and tried to duplicated her drawings with and without pencil in her teeth. Carrie attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she graduated with honors. In 2007, Upon seeing DaVinci’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, she declared, “I want to paint like that”. Her paintings can be described as imaginary realism. Although dedicated to the 16th Century techniques of the Masters, she also finds room for the occasional scribble, inspired by children’s drawings. Pearce describes her work as emotional portraits rather than portraits of people. The people are inspired by turn of the century photos that she finds at antique stores and estate sales.
Carrie's work has been featured both nationally and internationally. She is a "Living Artist" with the Art Renewal Center, a website dedicated to the revival of realism in fine art. Her work has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, "When artists paint themselves".
© 2019. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Carrie Pearce. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
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| Ms. Carrie Pearce |
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| 2011, Mums |
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| 2015, LLoyd and His Imaginary Friends |
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| 2015, Pin the Tale |
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| 2015, Who in Hell Let Jack Out? |
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| 2016, Princess Cotton |
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| 2016, Boyblue |
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| 2016, Cookie |
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| 2016, Gloria |
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| 2016, Piphany |
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| 2016, Voices of Reason |
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| 2017, Blue Ribbon Chicken |
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| 2017, Clown Cake |
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| 2017, Godspeed |
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| 2017, Horse Feathers |
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| 2017, Joy Ride |
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| 2017, Tickling Fancy |
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| 2017, Trouble With Bubbles |
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| 2017, Unicornelia |
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| 2017, Voila |
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| 2017, Weezy |
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| 2018, Dreamgirl |
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| 2018, Fair Game |
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| 2018, Hunting treasures |
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| 2018, Lullaby |
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| 2018, Mousetrap |
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| 2018, Paddywhack |
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| 2018, Promiseland |
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| 2018, Sweet Tooth |
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| 2018, What Child is This |
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| 2019, Boss Hog |
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| 2019, But a Dream |
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| 2019, Ever after |
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| 2019, Liar, Liar |
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| 2019, Monkeyboy and the Neighbors |
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| 2019, The Merry Makers |
What a fantastic artist! But if I owned one, it would scare me daily!
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