Art Gallery Showcase

This is a selection of the finished artwork we have housed in the archive. While we don't have any of her framed paintings, these serve as a good example of what some of them would have looked like. 

We can also see the diversity in the type of art Sister Mary of Carmel liked to create -- from basic drawings like the flower scenes on the left, to landscapes, and finally to people in the natural world.

To see more of her artwork, click here.

This is a selection of hand-painted cards created by Sister Mary of Carmel, typically used as greeting or birthday cards. She would make the cards by starting on a blank piece of card paper. Then she would draw her designs and paint in the flowers using a thicker material, adding a unique textured component to them.

These examples show that for her cards, Sister Mary of Carmel liked to use flowers and light pastel colors.  The scanner in the archives could not fully capture how bright and vibrant the colors are, and only in person can you truly appreciate them.

To see more of her painted cards, click here.

This is a selection of some of Sister Mary of Carmel's landscape sketches from her many sketchbooks. These show the bare-bone drawings she created when going about her daily life and would sometimes serve as the basis for more complete works. 

Continuing with more of her sketch work, this is a selection of Sister Mary of Carmel's sketches of people. Above is a variety of sketches in different states of completion. The sketch on the right seems to be of the same subject that appears in one of her finished artworks featured above. 

To see more of her sketches, click here.