Carol Lopez

Carol Lopez has been involved in the arts for over 25 years working with a variety of media including oils, acrylics, charcoal and chalks. While she is mostly self-taught, she studied and trained in Japan, with a resulting Asian influence in her work. Since discovering the most ancient painting medium (beeswax) and encaustic techniques twelve years ago, she has worked exclusively in this medium. Carol’s award-winning paintings are found in private collections all over the world, and are available in her gallery and home studio, Galeria de Suenos, in Las Cruces, NM.

She entered the world of miniature art five years ago with her works juried into competition and winning awards in local, national, and international shows including: the Miniature Art Society of Florida, Dunedin, FL; the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Ashville, NC; the Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC; the Masterworks of New Mexico Miniature Arts Bardean, Albuququerque, NM ; the Roswell Fine Arts League/Miniature Arts Society, Roswell, NM; the Casper Artists Guild, Casper, WY; the Northern California Society of Arts in Miniature, Mariposa, CA, the Carlisle Arts Learning Center, Carlisle, PA, and the El Dorado Fine Arts Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO. She continues to paint and exhibit in large formats, but finds that miniature art presents challenges that inspire her. Carol believes that nature is surrealistic, and that encaustic beeswax painting has provided her the means to capture this surrealism. She has recently expanded her repertoire to explore the iconography of Spanish Colonial New Mexico.

Some of Carol’s works can found at her website www.waxpaintings.com.; she is also represented locally by the Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery in Mesilla, NM, and Lundeen Galleries in Las Cruces. She is a member of the Black Range Artists, Inc., the Las Cruces Arts Association, the Miniature Art Society of Florida, the Rio Grande Arts Association, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and is President of the Las Cruces City of Artists Promotional Association. In 2006, she was inducted into the National League of American Pen Women, and Who’s Who of American Women.