Berlin Library Honors Local Artist Via Special Exhibit

Press release from the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library:

Berlin-Peck Memorial Library

BERLIN, CT — Guests of the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library are being asked to experience the beauty of nature through Berlin native Carol Welz’s paintings.

The library on May 8 announced an exhibition featuring the artwork of Welz. It's available to see through June 3 at the library, 234 Kensington Road, Berlin.

"Experience the beauty of nature through Welz’s paintings, from brilliant flowers to landscapes and charming slice-of-life scenes," wrote the library.

Welz grew up in the town of Berlin and graduated from Berlin High School.

When she was about 11 years old, she spent time in Pennsylvania visiting with her grandmother and it was there that she found out she could draw.

Having nothing in particular to do she started drawing roses. From then on she developed an interest in painting and drawing.

A couple of years after high school, she married and had two children, so there was little time to paint.

But she dabbled here and there and took a course at the now defunct CT School of Fine Arts in watercolor painting.

Welz only painted in oils before that time and found she loved the way watercolors moved and the riches of the colors created by laying many colors on top of one another.

She paints mostly from her photographs. When she travels, she takes many pictures and loves painting scenes from around the Town of Berlin.

Her main love is painting landscapes and flowers. She has a big flower garden from which many of her flower pictures are created.

Welz also loves wildflowers and walking in fields and woods to find them. Attention to detail is her main focus.

She has been a member of the CT Watercolor Society and Lyme Art Association in the past. She has won many prizes and awards and sold many paintings through the years.

Her love of nature and the environment inspire her and are true beauty and joy that she can only try to capture forever in her paintings.

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This press release was produced by the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.