About the Artist

Carol Lundeen, wife and mother of one, is an artist of many mediums.  She enjoys oil painting, Claybord Black and doing plein air studies in Oil Pastels in the rolling hills of their hobby farm in rural Dassel, MN.  Her favorite subjects to paint or draw is "anything that the Lord uses to inspire".  That would include wildlife as well as domestic animals, landscapes and people.

Carol grew up in Paynesville, MN where she graduated and went on to college at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, ID. She graduated with a B.A. in Art and moved back to Minnesota in 1985 to be closer to her family.

“I started drawing when I was a young kid,” says Lundeen. “My dad was a minister and I used to sit and draw the back of people's heads during dad's sermons.  My brother and I both loved to draw. Whatever he did, I did. When I got to college, my art became all about oils. I  really love oil painting.”

Even so, when Carol and husband, Steve, became parents in 1998, it was pen and ink pointillism that she chose to draw her birth announcements in. The response from friends and family was so encouraging, she decided to pursue drawing babies for professionals and parents, hoping to make a positive influence on those promoting healthy parent / child relationships.  And so began Carol's business, Lundeen Artwork.

After 8 years of successfully selling her baby art nationally, Carol began to feel the pull of getting back into her oils once again. She began studying other artists whose work she was

particulariy fond of and began doing landscapes and wildlife in oil.  Having taken an oil pastel

class, Carol now enjoys doing her plein air studies outside with the pastels and then takes those

studies into the studio where she paints her oils.

Carol also works in Claybord Black (correct spelling) or Scratchboard.  She loves the realism she can achieve when doing animals and

birds.  "You can almost get a 3 dimensional look with the Claybord.  It really plays with the viewers minds."

"God has given me a talent in the art world that I cannot ignore.  It is my hope that you will see His glory in what I do and that someday I will stand before Him and hear Him say, "Well done, good and faithful servant."    -Carol Lundeen