Background

Originally from France, Dominique Caron studied fine arts at the Ecole des Beaux arts in Bordeaux after obtaining her baccalaureate in arts.

She traveled and lived for many years in Marocco, Rwanda, Ivory Coast From her admiration for these cultures she created a body of work based on masks. She exhibited in Africa & Europe. When she moved to San Francisco her masks became larger and more colorful. Her work was then represented in many galleries in the United States and Canada.

Her fascination for faces let her back to drawing, then painting. She relearned her trade with her own language of colors and joy. Her Hunter's Point Shipyard studio started to fill with paintings, pastels, watercolors, and gouaches. Every media was investigated and combined in large collage pieces. The masks where slowly set aside.

When she moved to Sausalito at the turn of the century, she felt welcome by the serenity and warmth of a true artist town. She also maintains a home and a studio in the French Basque country where she retreats for the summer. Dominique Caron's work is in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Japan &France.

Sensual and airy, gentle and serene, her work suggest a luminous art de vivre.