Two Villages Art Society presents David M. Carroll and family exhibit

“Page 19,” created by David Carroll. Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton will feature a well-known family of New Hampshire artists from March 22 to April 19.

“Page 19,” created by David Carroll. Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton will feature a well-known family of New Hampshire artists from March 22 to April 19. Two Villages Art Society

“Spotted Turtles in a Migration Stream,” created by David Carroll. 

“Spotted Turtles in a Migration Stream,” created by David Carroll.  Two Villages Art Society\

“Garden Path,” created by Laurette Carroll. Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton will feature a well-known family of New Hampshire artists from March 22 to April 19.

“Garden Path,” created by Laurette Carroll. Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton will feature a well-known family of New Hampshire artists from March 22 to April 19. Two Villages Art Society

Published: 03-26-2025 9:00 AM

The latest exhibition at Two Villages Art Society in Hopkinton features a well-known family of New Hampshire artists. “The Carrolls: Four Related Visions/David M. Carroll, Laurette Carroll, Sean Carroll, Riana Frost” opened Saturday, March 22 and will run until Saturday, April 19.

Longtime Warner residents David and Laurette Carroll, and their children Sean and Riana, work in various genres, including oil and watercolor, multimedia, sculpture, and feather painting.

David M. Carroll, an award-winning artist and naturalist, is famous for his paintings and books about wetlands. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (“genius grant”) for this work in 2006. In recent years, the artist moved into Cubist and Surrealist-influenced art, inspired by the Russian Avant-Garde movement. His work has been exhibited at the Currier Museum, and three paintings are in the permanent collection.

A solo exhibit of Carroll’s cubist-inspired work opened at Colby-Sawyer College’s art gallery in 2020, but its run ended five days later due to the pandemic. The exhibit is a rare opportunity to view Carroll’s abstract and non-objective painting. The exhibition features David M. Carroll’s new work, as well as the natural history paintings for which he is known.

Laurette Carroll’s works range from naturalistic to impressionistic, as well as purely abstract. She works mainly from nature, painting coastal and mountain landscapes as well as her own gardens. Sean Carroll began his artistic journey in a pottery apprenticeship with the late Dwight Graves. A Bradford resident, he makes his living in carpentry and old house restoration. Inspired by Hopkinton painter Byron Carr, he became a dedicated plein air painter. Riana Frost paints wildlife in natural settings on wild turkey feathers obtained from licensed hunters.    

The Two Villages Art Society is at 846 Main Street in Hopkinton’s Contoocook Village. The gallery is free and open to the public Thursday through Sunday 12-4 p.m. For more information, visit https://www.twovillagesart.org/