Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, born in Catford, England, grew up in southern California, where she studied art and psychology at UCLA. In 1980, she moved to her cliff-side home high above the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California, where she studies, writes, and paints amidst the surrounding wilderness. A passion for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with spiritual transformation have ignited Carolyn to become an award-winning poet, author, and artist. She is the author of 21 books, a...See more
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, born in Catford, England, grew up in southern California, where she studied art and psychology at UCLA. In 1980, she moved to her cliff-side home high above the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California, where she studies, writes, and paints amidst the surrounding wilderness. A passion for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with spiritual transformation have ignited Carolyn to become an award-winning poet, author, and artist. She is the author of 21 books, a variety of which are used as inspirational texts in universities and healing centers worldwide, and are featured along with the writings of seven other acclaimed woman writers in a continuing course, "The Other Half of the Sky: Eight Woman Writers," taught at Swansea University in Wales by poet and publisher Peter Thabit Jones. Carolyn's poetry and prose have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, and her first book, Climates of the Mind , was translated into Braille by the Library of Congress. Her writings have been translated into more than 15 languages--Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Farsi/Persian, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish and three of her books have been published in bilingual and trilingual editions. The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University exhibited a retrospective of Carolyn's paintings and drawings and published an exhibition catalog, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld: Visions from Big Sur , with art from the exhibit and a commentary by museum curator and director, Michael Zakian, PhD. Carolyn's art appears on book covers and is featured internationally in galleries, museums, private collections, and multimedia presentations. Over the past two decades, Carolyn has created an extensive and diverse body of paintings and drawings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. Caroline's art appears worldwide in galleries, museums, and private collections. The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum will open in February 2022 at Cal State University Long Beach, and will house over 170 of Carolyn's paintings and drawings, as well as her literary archives. See less