Carmen Gardner

Maui is teaching me to see. As Georja O’Keeffe once said hoping to “adequately say with color and shapes that for which I have no words.”

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What is your favorite type of art to create?

Painting realism especially people, birds, flowers of the Hawaiian Islands

Where do you find inspiration?

Color and light in my subjects mostly in the incredible people, places and indigenous species of Hawai’i

What would you do with $25,000?

Hmmmm … I’d donate to at least one of the worthy animal advocacy organizations on Maui and use some to travel to the Marquesas and Tuamotus to learn more about some of the origins relative to the people of the South Pacific

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