Biography

Born in 1960, Anna Carll is heavily influenced by the coastal setting around her native Sarasota, Florida. Carll received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida in Gainesville, after which she relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived and worked for 16 years in the graphic design industry. These skills followed her into the fine art world when she quit the graphic design industry to become a full-time painter. In 2019, Carll began to explore the medium of collage and found a home there using paper as a means to paint. Carll’s main influences are Lee Krasner, Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn & Mark Bradford. Carll’s work is collected by a diverse group of private collectors and corporations in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. Carll now lives and works in Chattanooga, TN.

Carll began her painting career with very colorful figurative work which slowly evolved into non-representational abstract work that is based on the concept of urban expansion & erosion, entitled the Urban Series. Carll has now begun a new chapter in her work entitled the Intuitive Series where her explorations focus on random placement of collage material and intuitive expression.