BIOGRAPHY
Carol Walthers is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on painting, drawing and surface applications such as wax resist and mono-printing. Throughout her practice, she has explored watercolour, pastel, oil, and photography. She employs a range of themes mostly focusing on humanity; relationships with our environment and each other. Much of her work involves a narrative where the viewer is invited to contemplate their own perspective. Exploration and experimentation are important elements of her art practice.
Her final year at the OCAD culminated in a solo show at Gallery 76. The Corkin-Reeves Award was one of two awards she received while in college. After graduating she received an OAC grant to produce photo-serigraphs at Open Studio. Carol was a founding member of Gallery 44 and had solo exhibitions there.
This past decade she has been working to expand her artistic vision after a successful career in Graphic Arts.
Her solo shows were exhibited at the Berlin Tower Artspace, the Ayr Branch library and at the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre in Niagara on the Lake. In 2025 her solo show An Application Has Been Made was exhibited in Cambridge, as was All That Sustains Us at the Goderich Coop Gallery and Streaming the Aurora Cultural Centre.
She achieved signature status with Pastel Artists Canada, Toronto Watercolour Society, and the Colour and Form Society. She has exhibited in over 50 juried shows in York Region, Toronto and Waterloo Region. These curated group shows were highlights: Newmarket’s “Artists Preserve History, Mulock Farm”, Aurora Cultural Centre’s “Hilary House A Place Of Healing” and “Perennial Darkness”, and McMichael Gallery’s, “All Things With Imagination”. One of her pastel paintings is part of a public collection in the Newmarket Town Hall.
Art Administration
Society of York Region Artists - Board member, current
Preston Arts Collective - Board member, current
Celebration of the Arts, Cambridge - Visual Arts Coordinator 2023
Art Aurora Show - Juror 2019
Gallery 44 - Board member 1980 - 1983
Small Focus Exhibition, Gallery 44 - Curator 1983
Artreprenuer Certificate - 2018
Community Engagement
North Dumfries Conservation Alliance - Board member
List of exhibitions and awards