Carol Baker

As a mixed media artist known for her whimsical and vividly colorful scarves, Carol began her art career in the early 1980s, painting and weaving as a member of the Arkansas Craft Guild. During that time, she was selected to create an ornament for The White House Christmas Tree. Relocating in the early 1990s to California's Monterey Peninsula area, Carol began painting exclusively on silk.

Drawn to the luminescence and watercolor-like quality of the transparent dyes on the shimmering silk, she focused on scarves as a wonderful rectangular form for her artistic creations. Her work inspires nature and landscape designs. Based on her experiences in the California wine country, she created her super blooms - bright poppies waving in the breeze.