Raised outside of Philadelphia, JL Carothers has a passion for the natural landscape of Pennsylvania. Painting outdoors offers her challenges in creating atmosphere, color and depth perception, along with the unforeseen obstacles Mother Nature throws her way. Recently her paintings have increased in scale and are more abstract. When not Plein air painting, then she is in her printmaking studio where she incorporates organic materials and hand-made papers in more abstract prints using contemporary and traditional techniques on various substrates in her etchings, monoprints, and...more
