Carolyn Young Hisel was a well-known Kentucky artist who passed away in 2017. Her art consisted of an incredibly diverse range of paintings, collages, pastels and drawings that spanned a career of more than fifty years. As her work matured, it moved from vibrant colorful abstractions of friends, landscapes and neighborhoods to become more and more about our human relationship with the spiritual realm. In Carolyn's own words: "I ask the questions shared by every struggling human soul: questions about virtue and evil; guilt and innocence; the meaning of suffering and loss; redemption; revelation; love and transcendent joy; hope and despair."
This website has been created for the online sales of This Light, This Ringing: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of the Work of Carolyn Young Hisel , produced by Iota Books of Lexington, Kentucky, to coincide with an exhibition at Lexington’s Headley-Whitney Museum in April of 2019. This 216-page, large-format, full-color book includes a substantial biography, excerpts from Carolyn's own writing about her process as an artist, and essays by friends and scholars, including Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Susan Starr Richards, and Harvard art historian Jennifer L. Roberts, as well as nine chapters of high-quality reproductions of Carolyn’s work through each phase of her career.
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