Caroline M. Sun

Fond of drawing as a child, she remembers drawing roosters in crayon that brought admiration from adults. At the same time, she was inspired by tales of animals in Aesop's fables, Greek mythology, and in children's classics like Watership Down, Black Beauty, Trumpet of the Swan, and many others. Although she went on to have success as a lawyer, and as a teacher of English literature, she always maintained a deep and abiding interest in the natural world. She now devotes most of her energy to her art.

Her paintings are not derived from photographs, but come from her imagination and reflect images from her psyche. Her profound love of animals informs her work with a sense of nature's spirituality and grace. She is interested in depicting an emotional reality that gives one the sense of each animal's emanating spirit. From one scene to another, she strives to create a unique moment with a pictorial-narrative center that tempts the viewer to wonder what has just happened or is happening to the creatures in her work. The whimsical sense of her work allows viewers to play and come up with satisfying possiblities of their own to complete the story. _______________________________________________________________________

Ms. Sun has taken art courses at the School of Visual Arts (NYC), Women's Studio Center (Long Island City, NY), and Great Neck Arts Center (Great Neck, NY).

She is currently a member of the Asian American Arts Alliance, 155 Avenue of the Americas, NYC, NY 10013 (212) 941-9208; Alliance of Queens Artists, 99-10 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY (718) 520-9842; The Art Guild, Elderfields, Port Washington, NY; The Artists' Objective; Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY, 11354 (718) 463-7700; Long Island City Artists, Inc. (LICA), Long Island City, NY, 11106 (917) 843-3836; and Queens Council on the Arts, One Forest Park, Woodhaven, NY, 11421 (718) 647-3377.

Ms. Sun is also an editor and researcher at the QCC Art Gallery at Queensborough Community College where she does art history research and has edited two major monographs to exhibitions: "Picasso Printmaker: A Perpetual Metamorphosis" and "Yesterday's China." In addition to painting, Ms. Sun is also interested in illustrating books for children and adults. ______________________________________________________________________

If you are interested in her work, please feel free to contact her at the email address below. Please click the link below entitled "Additional Caroline M. Sun Paintings" to see all the images on this site and click the other links below for images of her work on other websites. The images and material here will be changed regularly so please visit again.