Caroline Quinn

Caroline showed promise as artist when she was attending Davidson College. As a city planning major, she also studied studio art with Douglas Houchens and several other prominent art professors at Davidson. She studied 19th century painting and Gothic architecture in France. After graduating from Davidson, Caroline focused on urban design at the School of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While in graduate school, she learned computer programming and was drawn into a career in Information Technology. She had a successful IT career, spending most of her career at SAS Institute in Cary, NC. She retired as an R&D Director in 2014 from SAS and moved to St James, North Carolina. She started to paint and draw again, working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, and pencil.

Caroline is a lifelong equine and horse racing enthusiast. She was a horse show mom for her daughter for over 20 years. They still own Jupiter, her daughter’s show horse, who is at a horse retirement farm. As a thoroughbred racing fan, she has been to many racetracks, and to many of the beautiful thoroughbred farms in Lexington, Kentucky.

Caroline is a member of the American Academy of Equine Art. She has won several awards at regional art shows. Her favorite subject is horses, but she also enjoys painting animals and wildlife of all kinds. Besides horse and pet portraits, she also does portraits of people and has done many commissions. Her website is at http://www.carolinequinnartist.com.