Sidonie Caron was born in Germany just a year before Hitler rose to power, Sidonie Caron and her German-Jewish family fled to Holland—only to find that it, too, soon became perilous. With assistance, they escaped once more, ultimately reaching war-torn but free England.Caron arrived in the Pacific Northwest from her native England in 1965. She trained at London’s St. Martins School of Art and the Central School of Arts & Crafts, where she developed the impressionist sensibility that continues to shape much of her work. The diverse landscapes of the Pacific Northwest provided an abundance of inspiration, allowing her to express her deep connection to the region through a wide range of paintings.Her work has been represented in galleries in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco, and is included in numerous public and private collections across the United States. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.Beloved by the regional art community, Caron creates abstract, landscape, and figurative works, drawing on a sweeping array of subjects. “I am an eclectic painter,” she says. “I respond to life’s influences, my travels, and my environment by making work that reflects all this.”