Carole Raschella was born and raised in England and had a pencil in her hand before she could walk. Prior to her move to the U.S., she studied at the Laird School of Art in Liverpool, but considers herself, through a life of observation and experience, to be primarily self-taught. 

In her twenties, she moved to California, where after a “brief” twenty year detour into television writing, she finally had the opportunity to devote her life to art.  Her artwork has been seen on the covers of magazines such as Golden Retriever World and the Gordon Setter Quarterly, and in the Pacific Wildlife Gallery in northern California, as well as Learning Tree University in Los Angeles. She has won several awards and honorable mentions at art shows, the Affaire In The Gardens, in Beverly Hills, California, and the Southwest Arts Festival in Indio, California, to name two.  Most recently, her work took Best of Show at the Westlake Village Art Guild's annual juried competition.

Carole lives with her three dogs in southern California, where she is a member of the Canine Artists Guild and serves on the board of both the Chatsworth Fine Arts Council and the California Federation of Dog Clubs.    In addition to her original work, she has a special love for commissioned work because it gives her the opportunity to find and portray the unique spirit and personality of each individual subject, something that never fails to evoke an emotional response from her clients.  

ARTIST STATEMENT:  "I like to work in black and white because there’s something magical about seeing form created from nothing but light and shadow. At the same time, there’s a sense of serenity in the reprieve from a world of constant color, as well as a depth of detail that gets right into the soul of the subject.  As they say, it’s all in the eyes....

Back to the drawing board!"