Carolyn Rogers (Richard) is the 2007 vice president of Bloomington Watercolor Society. She has been painting in watercolor for the past ten years or more at her home studio (Brushfire Studios). She has studied with Shelley Frederick, Henry Bell, Jerry Smith, Karen Vernon, Gerald Brommer, Sandy Maudlin, and Joseph Fettingis.
Carolyn is both a painter of representational art such as landscape vistas of the southwest or flowers and an experimental painter, enjoying creating colorful non-representational or impressionistic works. She also uses acrylics, caran d’ache, and fibers in many of her paintings. She paints on watercolor paper or board, Yupo (synthetic paper), and canvas. Carolyn is a member of The Experimental Artists of Brown County, the Watercolor Society of Indiana and the Bloomington Watercolor Society. Carolyn’s paintings are on exhibit at Gallery North on the Square, 116 W. 6th St. in Bloomington, where she also serves as President of the Gallery North cooperative.