Carol Mothner is renowned as a painter of exquisite works that detail the ethereal qualities of her subjects. She is a New York-born artist who lived and worked in the Southwest for more than 50 years. She received her first formal training at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art and later attended the Art Students League, Brooklyn College, and the School of the Visual Arts in New York. In 1971 she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was married to the late artist Daniel Morper (1944 – 2016), a realist landscape and townscape painter. Mothner’s work has centered on such subjects as interiors, floral still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. In each of these modes, Mothner applies her masterful technique for intimate, small-scales tableaus in combination with her uncanny ability to extract emotional depth from her subject matter. Images of flowers have long been one of Mothner’s favorite subjects and she has gained a particular reputation for the evocative beauty and elegance of her floral work. She is also well known for her egg tempera depictions of small natural objects, especially birds' nests and eggs, which she arranges in circles or grids as well as female portraits and interiors. She switched from oil painting to tempera for greater accuracy in painting fine lines and also uses graphite and acrylic paint. Mothner uses tiny brushes and meticulously works fluid acrylic or egg tempera on panel to articulate the character of her painting. The work is at once intimate and open. She explores interwoven themes of perseverance, resilience and rebirth, reminding us, for example, that under seeds' protective armor lies the eternal feminine energy ready to soothe, renew, and give meaning to a tangled moment in time. She is acclaimed for her unique talent for capturing the essence and magic of commonplace objects and for her exquisite depictions of simple objects such as wild birds' nests and eggs, ripe fruit, and lone flowers portrayed as 'objects of contemplation'. Mothner uses starkly simple still life arrangements to create an atmosphere of mystery. Mothner's work is distinguished by the small dimensions of her monoprints and paintings. Her small panels might feature imagery similar to medieval decorated manuscripts or Indian miniatures. The viewer is drawn into an entirely new world, in which every object glows with inner life. Originally an abstract painter, Mothner broke away from her training to pursue realist painting, inspired by Dutch and Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, Rachel Ruysch, and Johannes Vermeer. Since the early 1980s, Mothner’s work has been represented in the collections of numerous museums as well as prominent corporate and private collections.