Included is a group of paintings of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. A series of over 100 pastels was created between 1973 and 1977. These were done on flocked paper with pastel pencils, giving more definition than soft pastels. Half of them are landscapes. The remainder are inner landscapes with figures and faces.
Recent work includes paintings in acrylic on paper.
There is a range of themes in all of her work including landscapes, dream landscapes, portraits, and geometric mandalas. Carol usually does not know what will emerge in her paintings. Usually she will develop things over a period of time, an exception is found in her most recent paintings on paper. Painting since childhood, Carol graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1969 from the University of Washington, Seattle. She studied with Ernst Fuchs in Austria in the summer of 1972, learning the misch technique and later applying its principles to her work with acrylic paintings.