Carol Paquet was born in Northern Rhodesia, (now Zambia), of a British father and a South African mother.  She left Northern Rhodesia as a young child just prior to that country’s independence and settled in South Africa.

Paquet attended the College of Art in Johannesburg, majoring in Graphic Design. This was followed by a career in advertising as an Art Director and during this time she worked in Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa), in London (UK) and in Southern California (USA). Her job involved Art Direction in both print and film and she has won a number of international awards for her work.

She continued her education in the Fine Arts through privately sponsored programs and while living in Johannesburg, studied etching with William Kentridge  - now an internationally acclaimed artist. Her influences have been Anselm Kiefer, Peter Doig and Kentridge.

Paquet has spent many years living abroad and has traveled widely. Cape Town, Munich, London and Toronto have been her homes as has Oakland, California. She now resides on the Central Coast, California, but Africa remains a continual source of inspiration to her.

I am interested in the intersection of the the natural landscape and abstraction. That place where reality dissolves and is replaced with shapes and forms that take on another identity.

• "Empty Spaces and Littered Places" October, 2011 Steynberg Gallery. San Luis Obispo.
• Linne Calodo Vineyard - California, 2010
• Native Lounge "4 off the Wal" 2010
• Loft Gallery ,Paso Robles Featured Artist, 2009
• CorkStop Studios “Beyond the Print: Revealed
• San Luis Jet Center March 2009
• Firestone Vineyard. Paso Robles. Oct. 2008
• 9th Annual S.U. National Exhibition. Kauffman Gallery - Shippensburg University. PA . April 2008
• Pink Honda Organic Abstractions. CorkStop Studios, Central Coast. California. May 2008
• Open Studios, CorkStop Studios. Central Coast California. October 2007
• CorkStop Studios - Inaugural Show, Central Coast California. May 2007
• San Luis Obispo Art Center. “Brushstrokes” Juried exhibition.  December 2006
• Esteban Sabar Gallery. Oakland, California. March 2006
• Pro Arts Open Studios, Bay Area, California. June 2005
• "Two Woman Show - Land and Water", Carol Aust and Carol Paquet, March 2005
  Montclair Gallery, Oakland, California
•  "New Visions: Introductions '04" Oakland, California. A juried exhibition of Californian artists. 2004
• Pro Arts Open Studios, Bay Area, California. June 2004
• Group show, Abney Gallery, New York. June 93
• Group show. Musee d’art Moderne de la Commanderie D’unet – Paris, France. 1993

• Tabor Westin Resort in Colorado - 2009
• Las Vegas,  Monte Carlo premier suites-2009
• Private commission - Strobel - 2010

• Central Coast Magazine, 2009
• The Tribune, 2008
• New Time, 2007

• Paso Robles Art Association show @ Studios on the Park, 2010

• San Luis Obispo Art Center
• San Luis Obispo Print Makers