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David and Laurette Carroll
Artist Naturalist David Carroll and his wife,
painter Laurette Carroll, met as students at the School of the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. They have lived in Warner, New
Hampshire for 26 years, where they raised their family of three
children and have continued to document their world in journals,
sketchbooks, illustrations, paintings, and published books. In
addition to his work as a writer and artist, David is a lecturer
and consultant; both he and Laurette are ardent and active in
their work to preserve the natural environment.
Laurette works in a variety of media, primarily watercolor and acrylic, in styles ranging from impressionistic to abstract. In her recent work, wetlands have become a major landscape theme. One of her landscapes is featured on the cover of In Deep, a collection of essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin, and a wetlands landscape triptych is in the permanent collection of Chubb Life America. Laurette is also known for representational and interpretive garden paintings and interiors, and these works are held in many private collections.
David is the author and illustrator of The Year of the Turtle and Trout Reflections. He is currently at work on a book on wetlands, Swampwalker’s Journal, to be published by Houghton Mifflin in the spring of 1997.
David’s art and writing, as well as his field work with New Hampshire turtles and wetlands, have been the subject of articles in the Concord Monitor, The Union Leader, The Boston Globe, and other newspapers. His work has been featured in Yankee Magazine and in documentaries on the NBC-TV Sunday Today Show and WCVB Boston’s Chronicle program.
In 1990 David received a grant from the New Hampshire Nongame and Endangered Species Program to assist his turtle investigation in the state. During 1993 and 1994 he was contracted by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, the National Parks Services, and The Nature Conservancy to conduct turtle studies in connection with a potential “Wild and Scenic” designation for the Lamprey River. Since April 1994 David has been Visiting Naturalist Artist at the 5000-acre Norcross Foundation Wildlife Sanctuary in Monson, Massachusetts. Laurette often accompanies him as he observes and records the life of the sanctuary and her painting,over the last two years, has focused on this unspoiled environment.
In addition to his diploma in painting from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, David holds an MFA degree from Tufts University. In 1993 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of New Hampshire. New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire will bestow an honorary Masters degree in Environmental Science on David in May 1996.