The Toadstool Collection of Jacqueline Collen Tarrolly
©Jacqueline Collen Tarrolly
From an early age, Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly was seeing faces and shapes in the trees and mountains of the rural area in Colorado she where she was raised. Living on a ranch in the middle of nowhere left lots of time for this shy, misfit kid to get to know the patterns of nature, and rhythms of the wild. With the nearest town several miles away, her dearest friends became the ranch animals and the trees in which she spent hours hiding and dreaming.
It was not long before sketching the faces and lives she saw in those secret spaces became a way of expressing that side of her nature without fear of ridicule from the small town and small minds of the conservative town closest to her home. Quite the opposite, she discovered, she was praised for it! Her first art award was a first place at the age of five in an art competition for artist under 12 years of age. She had painted a tooth fairy.
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