Carolyn Proctor

Carolyn Proctor

Text Box: Welcome to my e-home. Let me invite you to share some of the passions and pastimes that fuel my life. When I was a child, asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “an adventuress.” Until I went to college at 25 for a degree in commercial art, my growth as an artist and a writer was haphazard and accidental. My family acknowledged that I could draw, but in a forties and fifties Scandinavian neighborhood no one knew anyone who actually made a living as an artist or a writer. At 11 I began to keep a diary, and by high school I was writing lengthy daily journals. I excelled in English and took the same creative writing class twice. There was no high school counseling for the creative arts, and my family could not afford to send me to college. In the sixties, advertising agency art departments were called “bull pens.” Even though I had a “real job doing artwork” I didn’t think of myself as an artist. My in-depth journals had been burned following a bad divorce, and I no longer wrote regularly. The years that followed were an incredible adventure of exploration into what it means to be creative. I became an "arts junkie" who has produced award-winning (sometimes) creations in a variety of media: gouache, colored pencil, photography, felt tip and brush pens, watercolor, oils, needlepoint, sewing, beadwork, applique and stitchery. Today, in addition to writing I like watercolor painting, travel, cooking, and the company of my many wonderful friends. I try to live a colorful life and make it a point to enjoy every day, whatever it brings. What does it mean to be creative? What I know is that we all have within us the seeds of great creativity. Whether it’s a picture to be painted, a song to be sung, a story to be told, a dish to be cooked or a business to be built, we all have individual dreams that make our lives special. My wish for you is that by viewing some of my efforts you will be inspired to celebrate the creativity in yourself.

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