Guild of Creative Art - Roberta Carter Clark Roberta Carter Clark, AWS Biography Art Work News Biography Roberta was born in St. Louis and grew up in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. She has been interested in painting people since her teens, when she attended classes at The Detroit Institute of Art. After more years of study with many fine painters she is comfortable working in oils, pastels and watercolors and enjoys imparting whatever she has learned to others. As a busy portrait painter Roberta has been with Portraits, Inc. in New York City since 1974 and her commissioned portraits are in the private collections of hundreds of families throughout the United States and in England.
More portraits are in public and corporate collections, including universities, hospitals and banks.
She has juried both state and national exhibitions and has become a popular demonstrator, teaching portrait and figure painting workshops from California to Texas, Hilton Head to Florida and many points between. Her paintings have received awards at national exhibitions, including The American Watercolor Society, Allied Artists, Midwest Watercolor Society and the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors. The first art book Roberta wrote and illustrated, How to Paint Living Portraits , was published in 1990 by North Light Books, and the newest book, Painting Vibrant Children's Portraits , was released in July of 1993. Both books have been well received and have proven to be valuable additions to the literature on how to proceed in this challenging occupation. This second book on painting children has been published in a French edition in1995 and it is titled Portraits D'Enfants .