2nd Floor Auxillary Gallery
Greenburgh Town Hall
December 1, 2025 thru January 30, 2026
Meet-the-artist-reception Sunday, Dec. 7th, 2-4 pm
Inspiration and Interpretation
Carol Perron Sommerfield
www.frogsleapgallery
914-419-7144
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." Albert Einstein
I am inspired by the earth, color, light, mystery and turning the ordinary into extraordinary. This inspiration has taken me down many paths of interpretation, from realistic expression to abstraction grounded in the landscape. In all cases, my job is to interpret the subject in a way that shares the emotion I experience in the inspiration.
The work in this exhibit spans more than a decade and features various subjects, mediums, scales and approaches. In peparation for this exhibit, I created new work to deeply explore the successful transformation of inspiration into artistic interpretation. These are some of my most abstract works, and yet, as always, they are tethered to the land.
I am honored to be sharing these works with you at the Greenburgh Town Hall Gallery. All sales will be donated to the Lake Muskoday Homeowners' Association, a nonprofit organization that is the steward for and protector of my biggest inspiration through life - Lake Muskoday.
This exhibit is both at the gallery and on line. Additional aintings ca be found online. Email me for information about a painting or if you wish to purchase a piece. carol.sommerfield@gmail.com.
See the exhibit at www.frogsleapgallery.com
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Carol Perron Sommerfield
Carol Perron Sommerfield returned to painting in 2011 after working for 32 years as a global corporate executive. Since that time, she has exhibited widely and won numerous awards. Ms. Sommerfield has had nine solo exhibits in Westchester County over the past 12 years, and her work has been selected for juried exhibits at The Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Fairleigh Dickerson University, Point Park University, ArtsWestchester, The Catskill Arts Society, Blue Hill Art and Cultural Center, and galleries in Westchester and New York City. In 2014 Ms. Sommerfield was juried into the National Association of Women Artist, The New York Society of Women Artists, and the New Rochelle Art Association. Ms. Sommerfield was awarded multiple studio and artist residencies at Arts, Letters and Numbers (Avril Park, NY) and Drop, Forge and Tool (Hudson, NY). She was the co-curator of The Donald Gallery in Dobbs Ferry, NY, for four years and the Chair of the annual Dobbs Ferry Beaux Arts exhibit and competition for Westchester County artists for five years.
Ms. Sommerfield earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from Ramapo College, an MBA in Management from the University of New Haven, an MA in Organizational Development and a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. In 2021 she founded and now chairs the Ardsley Pollinator Pathway. In 2023 she raised $15,000 through her benefit exhibit, Returning, providing funds to ten local non-profits supporting affordable housing, fighting food insecurity, and preserving and restoring ecosystems. In 2024 she was awarded person of the year by the Bronx River/Sound Shore Audubon Chapter and has also received honors from the Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York and Connecticut Audubon, and the Village of Ardsley for her work to preserve and restore habitat for pollinators and birds and educate homeowners about the value of creating and supporting native ecosystems in their yards.
You will find her painting the land she loves
