About Caroline de Mauriac

Caroline de Mauriac an assemblage artist, photographer and poet, was born in Augusta, Maine. She spent her youth in New England and New York’s Hudson Valley. Following decades living in the Midwest and Rockies, she returned to her ancestral roots in Maine. She holds degrees in Anthropology and Museum Studies with an emphasis on Material Culture and Comparative Mythology. She has a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University and a Master of Arts from Denver University. Her professional career spanned work in museums and environmental organizations. She spent the early years of her retirement traveling abroad. More recently she has devoted herself to artistic pursuits at her home near Brunswick.

Caroline’s work draws on the alchemy of human archetypes at the intersection of the inner life and outer experiences. Her work centers on narrative possibilities with each piece inviting the viewer to explore its content as source material for entering their own personal stories and mythologies. The tenuous relationship between the human and the other than human world inhabits her photographic practice, her assemblage pieces, and her poetry.

Examples of her visual art have been presented at galleries in Maine since 2020 at Meetinghouse Arts - Freeport, The Maine Gallery - Wiscasset, The Yarmouth Art Festival - Yarmouth, Munka Studio - Lewiston, The Crooker Gallery - Topsham, and River Arts - Damariscotta, as well as the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. Her work often appears in various art and literary journals. Her images also hang in private collections in Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kansas.