Carol Lee Thompson

Carol Lee Thompson is a full-time, professional artist, Classically trained in the methods of the Old Masters. Carol Lee paints a wide range of subject matter including landscape, equine and animal, portrait, and Western themes.

Carol is featured in galleries throughout the country. Her work is part of many corporate and private collections including the Butler Institute of Art and Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland. Carol has been juried into 29 Museum Exhibitions. Her art hangs in Baltimore's City Hall, The Fort McHenry National Shrine, the U.S. State Department, the Star Pass Resort in Arizona, and Camden Yards Stadium.

Carol's exhibits include: The Society of Animal Artists Museum Shows, The C.M. Russell Museum Show, and Small Works Great Wonders at The National Cowboy Museum.  She participates in the Settler's West's Great American Miniatures Show. She has been awarded First Place in the Oil Painters of America (OPA) On-Line Showcase and a Regional OPA Award of Excellence. Carol has received two Sporting Art Awards, Honorable Mention, two Sam Savitt Awards and the Award of Excellence with the Academy of Equine Art (AAEA).  Carol hung at the National sporting Art Museum.  She has won First Place/Animals in The Artist Magazine Competition as well as finalist five times. She also received awards with the Cheyenne Frontier Days Show and the Salmagundi Club in New York. Carol won a Fredrix Spirit of America Award and Best Painting by a Maryland Artist in Easton Plein Air. She has won two Awards of Excellence and a Third Place with the Nationally Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS). She has received eighteen awards in international miniature competitions. In the past seven prestigious Art Renewal Center (ARC) Salons, Carol has been a finalist thirteen times, received an Honorable Mention and one of six Chairman's Choice Awards.

Carol Lee is a Signature Member of the OPA , NOAPS, AAEA. and American Women Artists (AWA).  She is also a member of the SAA, the Women Artists of the West (WAOW) and the Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Washington, DC.  Carol is published in "Best of America Oil Artists II," "Fresh Flowers: The Best of Flower Painting," "Art of the American West," and "The TOP 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic." She has been featured in many magazine articles.