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MEET SQUIRT HERE
Carol Tacey is a BOB ROSS CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR in landscape and florals and owner of TOTEM FARM ART STUDIO in West Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA. Carol completed her Certification Program in 1991 with Bob Ross and now offers his technique in CLASSES & WORKSHOPS. Group programs and promotional demonstrations are held throughout the USA.
Totem Farm, home to creators big and small !
Want to see more of TOTEM FARM
Totem Farm Art Studio holds oil painting classes
West Kingston is just 2 hours by car from Boston Ma, 30 minutes from Providence RI, 2 hours from Hartford CT. Car travel: on Rt 95 north or south,6 miles from 'Exit 3' in Rhode Island. The Amtrak train station in West Kingston, Rhode Island is a 2 minute walk to studio. Air travel would be to Providence Airport, studio 30 minutes from airport. You will find several Bed and Breakfast near by. Register for class well in advance and we will be glad to help with transport and lodging arrangements.
Carol does landscapes, seascapes, animals and flowers.. She has completed many
fine oil paintings of favorite pets: dogs and puppies, cats and kitties, horses
and foals. Her wildlife and equine art are beautifully done in romantic realism.
See Carol's
Oil Painting classes are held in Carols' studio in West Kingston, Rhode Island
and at several location throughout New England. Once a year Carol goes on tour
and teaches at private studios. Are you an instructor? Would you like to have
Carol come to your studio? E-MAIL
YOU CAN DO IT Carol also does special order commission work. Would you
like an original oil painting done of your pet. ~ E-MAIL Carol for more
information.
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Carol
hosts the television series "HAPPY PAINTING" seen on Rhode Island Cable
Television, Thursdays at 4pm and Sundays at 7:30pm. During this thirty minute
show Carol completes a beautiful, 'easy-to-do' oil painting with the help of
her side kick SQUIRT. Squirt is an African Grey Parrot, Carols' friend and pet
with an outstanding vocabulary. He's always ready to critique her work and chew
on the brush handles during the show. Squirt would want us to mention that he
is REALLY the "STAR" of the show! 
An artist heaven, spacious sunlight studio located on a five acre wildlife rehabilitation station. Watch the horses run in their pasture along the Suckashean River, in West Kingston, Rhode Island. Studio seats 16 with windows overlooking the river, pastures, and creatures of every sort. The farm is a short or long term home to wildlife in need and domestic pets that find them selves on hard times. You'll find peacocks, chickens, geese, ducks, doves, all free roaming the farm. Then there are the dogs, cats, and
horses.
"Squirt" the resident African Gray parrot is in charge most of the time, he also is host to Carols' TV show "Happy Painting" seen on Rhode Island Cable. Squirt comes to all Carols' oil painting classes and entertains. His favorite lines: "Hurry up, Oh my God - What a mess!".
In the spring we have the baby orphans, raccoon, fox, or weasel. We rehabilitate and nurse them along. Birds of all sorts turn up when they are injured and are turned loose when they heal.
Well it all started when I was thirty ... I got a divorce and bought a horse. I also bought a small farm which had lay empty for 25 years. The house was over grown with vines and shrubs, had no heating system, and a decided lean to the roof. We had our work cut out for us, myself and my three children. But inch by inch, Totem Farm became a pleasure to the eye and home to ... I can't count how many of Gods Creatures. No homeless fur or feather critter is ever turned away. My children are grown and now my new husband, Tony, is my happy helper in this home for many,
