Live Your Music - Margaux Joy and Guest Cara Brown 06/14/17

I am excited to have Cara Brown, an award-winning watercolor artist and teacher, as my guest for 06/14/17.

In the summer of 1992 Cara Brown took a watercolor painting class and began to play around with painting small vases of flowers from life for a few months, but then hardly painted at all for nearly a decade.

Life changes (divorce, living abroad, meeting and marrying her husband Joe) brought her to a more collected and creative place and by 2000 she began to paint again. She took a few workshops and adult education classes, one community college credit class on color theory – but had no other art training.

In 2004 Cara was faced with an enormous disappointment – that she would not be giving birth to her own children in this lifetime.  It was unthinkable that her life would not include having and raising children. Her response to the wave of grief was to ask for the energy and inspiration to pursue adoption, or to be given something else to that would matter to her as much.  

In the winter of 2006 a friend asked her if she wanted to do Marin Open Studios together the following May. She replied with “that means I have to sell my art, right?” Her friend said, yes, that was the idea! At that time, her pictures were so precious – they took her forever to do and they were her babies!

Marin Open Studios brought an overwhelming response to her work inspiring her to paint more and search out other ways to show and sell her artwork.

In 2011, Cara begun to share what she’s learned with weekly watercolor groups and this became her growing edge.  

Cara now knows she was born to do this.  Her life is filled with purpose and meaning and she feels privileged to be spending her life this way.

To learn more about Cara Brown, visit her website: www.lifeinfullcolor.com