Collection: Carrie Hensel

Carrie Hensel is a landscape painter and collector of wild experiences. Her impressionistic work is a joyful and vibrant celebration of the interconnectedness of the natural world she’s spent so much of her life observing with loving curiosity and wonder.

Carrie spends countless hours in the great outdoors, hunting for morels and other miraculous finds. During her expeditions, she takes photos along the way and brings those images back to the studio to paint. As the artist describes it - “With both foraging and painting, I feel called to search, root around, feel afraid that I’m lost in a deep thicket, and then by some innate intuition find a new way out and bring a treasure with me.”

Growing up on a small farm in Midland, Michigan, Carrie roamed the woods, orchards, and fields. Carrie earned a BFA (Painting & Drawing) from the University of Michigan. She also holds a BS in Chemistry from Albion College. Carrie has worked in the sciences & healthcare, owned a marketing company, and consulted across industries with a focus on translating complex information (data, biochemistry, medical care, etc.) so it is relatable and readily understandable, both verbally and visually.