Carrie Jadus (b 1976, Tampa, FL) comes from an artistic lineage and a familial line populated with creatives. Drawn to art at a young age, she was accepted into the Pinellas County Center for the Arts fine and performing arts magnet program at Johnathan G. Gibbs High School where she carefully honed her developing skills. A post-graduation trip to Europe introduced Jadus to the impressionist masters, whose work deeply influenced her budding aesthetic sensibilities. In many ways a pragmatist, upon her return she earned a degree in electrical engineering, and worked in the field for many years. Ultimately dissatisfied with the lack of creativity her position afforded her, Jadus, by then a newly-single mother of two young sons, abandoned engineering in pursuit of a full-time career as a fine artist. Fueled by the need to provide for her children and suffused with both a love for painting and an unerring drive towards excellence, she threw herself headlong into her new profession, steadily developing a devout collector following and a reputation as both a skilled commission portraitist and muralist. In recent years she has added sculpture to her repertoire, working closely with MGA Sculpture Studio on a variety of corporate and public commissions. Now a firmly-established mid-career artist, Jadus accepts fewer commissions than she did in her emerging years, preferring the freedom to work in series of her own choosing. Her varied subjects, depicted largely in oils, inhabit the rich and fertile ground between realism and impressionism, at times veering more firmly into one over the other. Comfortable at any scale, Jadus's work ranges from the diminutive to the monumental, and examples can be found in numerous private and public collections both nationally and internationally.