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Carolyn A. Cohen works from live plant specimens, using field sketches and the botanical subjects she brings into her studio. Incorporating the traditions found in early botanical engravings and paintings, her work focuses on the “calligraphy,” patterns, and rhythms she sees in nature. Ms. Cohen has explored the natural world surrounding New York City, the pristine Adirondack Mountains, New England, North Carolina, and the native habitats of Florida. Her works include botanical watercolor paintings and hand painted etchings, which combine both media. In recent years she has produced a series of images illustrating plant, insect and aquatic life in American freshwater habitats, and paintings and etchings of pastoral landscapes.
For over 25 years Ms. Cohen has exhibited both her watercolors and hand painted etchings in outdoor art shows and has won numerous awards throughout the United States. Her artwork is in galleries, private and corporate collections including, locally, The City of Orlando, Walt Disney World Co., Orlando International Airport, and Duda, Inc. Her commissioned illustrations can be found in, for example, Ortho Books, Gardener Magazine and at Bok Tower Gardens. She is a founding member of the Florida Printmakers Society.
Ms. Cohen studied painting and printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, sculpture at the Greenwich House Pottery School (NYC), and botanical watercolor at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Over a period of nineteen years, Ms. Cohen worked first for the Rockefeller Foundation and then for New York University. Born and raised in NYC, Ms. Cohen received a BA degree from the City College of New York and did graduate work in Near Eastern Studies at New York University. She became a full time artist after moving to Florida in 1984. |
