Carolyn Lloyd Swain, a self taught artist, has been practicing art in various mediums since her childhood. Her work is known for minute detail and naive style. Her inspiration derives from music, literature, architecture, childhood memories and the busy, nimble fingers of her mother and grandmother.

In the 1980′s and early ’90s while raising her children, Carolyn enjoyed success, professionally, painting in a traditional style, working with found objects and developing her carving technique. Some of her earlier works were featured in Country Living Magazine and Early American Life Magazine. Her painting, “Port of Yorktown” was selected to commemorate the Yorktown Tercentenary Celebration as a poster in 1991.

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Carolyn Lloyd Swain’s Artwork