Biography

Anna Carll was born in 1960 and raised in Sarasota, Florida. Carll’s early influences were imprinted in a coastal setting around intense color on the Gulf of Mexico. In 1984, Carll received her BA from the University of Florida in Gainesville, after which she relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived and worked for 16 years in the graphic design industry. In 1995 Carll embraced and pursued a fine art discipline and spent 12 years honing her craft in the North Georgia Mountains under the influence of the beautiful Appalachians in the Blue Ridge area. Carll now makes her home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

Although Carll began her career as an illustrator and graphic designer, these skills followed her into the fine art world. In between large design projects in 1992, Carll began private study with the late painter Ouida Canaday who founded the Atlanta Piedmont Arts Festival, and continued study with Canaday until 1994. In 1999, Carll quit the graphic design industry to become a full-time painter. From that point onward she evolved as a self-taught artist. In 2019, Carll began to explore the medium of collage and found a home there with intricate mixed media. Carll’s main influences are Lee Krasner, Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn & Mark Bradford.

Carll began her painting career with very colorful figurative work which slowly evolved into non-representational abstract work that is based on the concept of urban expansion & erosion.

Carll’s first gallery representation began in 1997 with Bender Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta and is now represented by many galleries in the United States. Carll’s work is collected by a diverse group of private collectors and corporations in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia.