"...She once painted an Armani suit...that was so real someone wanted to pick it up...Carol Camelio's art defies categories, but demands attention."
-Barbara Rizza Mellin, Middlesex Beat, July 2003
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Since 1977, Carol L. Rose Camelio has displayed a wide variety of acrylic paintings in an equally wide range of venues. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum, the Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Provincetown Art Museum, the Whistler House Museum, and the Federal Reserve Bank Gallery of Boston.
In addition to gracing magazine covers and the pages of Arts Around Boston, The Middlesex Beat, Berkshire Living and InterMezzo Magazine, Camelio's artwork has been featured in the Boston Globe, and on the Warner Brothers' national television program Spenser for Hire.
Camelio paints finely detailed portraits, urban panoramas, tranquil still-lifes, and lush, land and seascapes. Her painting Gladiolus--one of several works exploring vibrant bee's-eye views of flowers and foliage--was chosen to represent the DeCordova Museum's Art That Means Business exhibition celebrating their corporate collection.
The natural beauty of Massachusetts is frequently reflected in Camelio's works as well, with such subjects as the Mystic River, the Concord River, Carlisle's Great Brook Farm, Martha's Vineyard, and the cityscape of Boston. She has also created many decorative murals and historical pieces, including a reproduction of John Singleton Copley's Mary and Elizabeth Royall for the Royall House Museum in Medford, MA.
Often using her work as a way to connect to the community and assist local charities, Mrs. Camelio has participated in many show houses and fundraisers throughout New England, and has displayed her work in national exhibitions, prominent galleries, and government as well as corporate institutions.
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"From my earliest years, I have been exposed to a vibrant visual world and taught that visual language is just another way of perceiving this world we journey through. I feel that we all have the ability to learn this language and are each limited only by our desire to use it.
With each stroke of the brush, I am transported to a place where time seems to disappear...where only the canvas and I know the moment and touches of paint bring glimpses of something that words cannot express.
So often I stand back and am amazed...It feels as If I have become lost in time and somehow the paintbrush and I seem to dance with a palpable energy. Something happens that I do not understand each time I paint...I sense it is something magical and it is such a blessing."
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