Carolyn Brunelle is a Minneapolis native. She studied art at the University of Minnesota with Malcom Myers, and at Hamline University with James Conaway and Steve Hartman. She’s currently working with Minneapolis painter and arts educator Hazel Belvo. She has exhibited her paintings regularly over the past twenty-five yers, winning a number of awards. Her work is included in numerous private and local corporate collections throughout the region including Capital One Financial Services, Leonard, Street and Deinard, Piper Jaffray, IDS Financial Services, Saint Paul Companies, Lindquist & Vennum, Wells Fargo, Plymouth Congregational Church and Minnehaha Academy She currently lives in Golden Valley and maintains a studio in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul. Artist Statement: My work is a combination of plan, chance and imagination. I layer acrylic paint, then sand and scrape the surface of the canvas to see what is revealed. It is a subconscious connection between experimentation and artistic judgement. It is an act of faith.