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Carol Decker is a nationally known self taught wildlife artist. She lives in north western New Jersey with her husband Roy, where they work together in the art business. Carol paints and Roy frames all of the artwork. Carol spends many hours in the field observing wildlife in their natural habitat to gain better knowledge of how the animals interact and behave together. Through her many journals and photographs much can be learned about nature. She then uses this information to paint all of her artwork.

Carol Decker uses acrylic paints to develop the fine detail that can be seen in all of her paintings. Over several years Carol has won many awards because of this attention to detail. The awards include: 1st place in the Maryland Black Bear Conservation Stamp Contest in 2001, 1st place in the International Migratory Bird Day Poster Competition, Best in Show in the NJ Wings & Waterfowl competition, and she has won Best in Show several times at the New Jersey State Fair Art Show where she exhibits a few paintings every year.

Her work has also been published in books. One book was published by The New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife titled “Wildlife Profiles”. In this book are about 80 paintings done by Carol that appeared on the back cover of the New Jersey Outdoors magazine. She has also illustrated books such as “Bridges to a Natural World” that was published by the Audubon Society. In addition to her original artwork, prints are produced so more people can purchase her art. Carol has had thirty print series reproduced in a variety of sizes so they are affordable to everyone.

Recently Carol started to license her work through an art licensing agent. With this, many products are being made with her artwork on them. Some of these products are; cross stitch designs, puzzles, and cards.

If you would like to learn more or contact Carol Decker, please go to her website.

Here are only a few samples of the work that you can find on her website: