Born and raised in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Carol-Ann realized from an early age she had a flair for art. While attending the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, her art teacher, William Parrott, encouraged her to enter the Lyceum Women's Art Association of Canada's 1963 Ann Roger's Art Scholarship Student Competition where she placed first.
Moving from her home town during her teens to Scarborough, she continued painting and crafting throughout her remaining high school and early employment years in Toronto. Her next move was to London, England in her early twenties which gave her the opportunity to draw and paint the romantic landscapes of the English countryside.
Pursuing the need to create, she has dabbled in many media and is mostly self-taught. In addition to her beautifully romantic and finely detailed oil and acrylic paintings, Carol-Ann also produces some very impressive crafts including painted birdhouses, flower pots, decorated tins and much more.
After ten years in England, she returned to Toronto where she worked until she retired. She has entered many art shows and her love of painting in oil and acrylics has never diminished. Retirement has brought her back to her roots and now she and her artist husband, Noel Martin, showcase their work out of their home studio - ARTINMARTIN Studio and Gardens in Owen Sound.
