Artist Statement

My botanical illustrations, nature photography, and instructive lessons serve as an opportunity to personally engage with all communities and admire, as well as treasure the diversity of our natural world. The art I create exemplifies the crucial value of biodiversity in order to preserve and sustain the environment for all life.  My goal is to heighten your personal appreciation, applications, and awareness of the ways we can combat the constant threats and challenges to the survival of plants on this planet for our own collective future. I hope to inspire others by crafting engaging opportunities to appreciate the value of sustainability and to take pride in empowering, preserving, and respecting the biodiverse life on earth.

Artist Biography

Carol Rudowsky is a multidisciplinary artist whose illustration repertoire spans the field of graphic arts, botanical, scientific, and medical illustration. She creates artwork in a variety of mediums such as watercolors, colored pencils, carbon dust, graphite, pen & ink, and nature photography. Carol enjoys being an entrepreneur and educator, whose passion emphasizes and promotes the significance of diversity in all life. Embracing diversity has been the hallmark of her career and creates a platform to share new perspectives and unique ideas, which empowers communities.  It results in fostering creative solutions and exciting possibilities for a brighter future for generations to come.

Earning her dual degree in Studio Arts and Art History at Stony Brook University, Carol travelled to Italy to study the Italian Masters and their artistic methods at the University of Siena in Italy. Enamored with the artists of the Italian Renaissance, such as the Medieval art of Cimabue, to the High Renaissance style of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, strongly influenced her pursuits for exploring the world of art. Her journeys traveling to historic museums and famous art venues across France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco, England, Canada, and Ireland, fuels her fascination with understanding art’s value and impact within different cultures of the world.

The Gregory Museum, in Hicksville, NY, commissioned her to create illustrations for their exhibit on the timeline of humans and plant evolution. In partnering with Dr. Curtis Dewey, Carol produced anatomical and physiology illustrations for his published veterinary textbook, “A Practical; Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology”. As a botanical illustrator, she has enhanced her abilities through training and membership with the New York Botanical Gardens and the American Society of Botanical Artists. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Alacrity Frame Shop Gallery, in Troy N.Y., New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, N.Y., and for students attending the Cornell Cooperative Extension online program in Botanical Illustration.

With experience as Director of Medical illustration, for a major medical center on Long Island, NY, she has created medical and scientific illustrations for journals to medical poster presentations. Her experience spans all the way through education where she has worked directly with special needs students in academic environments in schools and outside workshops. Carol has also used her artistic talents to design sculptural cakes for various wedding celebrations and private events, from her at-home baking business, “Brownies and Blondies”. Carol Rudowsky has enhanced her skills which she currently delves into botanical art melding scientific accuracy, educational insight, and artistic innovation in illustration of the natural world of plants, animals, and fungi.

Carol immerses herself in creating artwork and teachings inspired by nature through illustrations, sculptures, and mixed media collaborations. Her installations explore the boundaries and possibilities depicting the intricate textures, compositions, and forms of subjects in nature. Her art encourages a heightened awareness and appreciation for organisms outside the realm of  traditional botanical illustration, incorporating the kingdoms in the biological “Tree of Life”, that sustain the natural world.