Carol O’Dell
represented by Nancy Knight
White Iris follows M, a young woman who quits her MFA program, leaves her fiancé, and sells all she has to move to the South of France and paint with an apparition of Vincent by her side. He leads her to dizzy highs and destructive lows as she faces one emotional and spiritual crisis after another in search of her own white iris. By following his journey, M begins to understand her own.
I’ve spent close to seven years of research in the creation of White Iris. I’ve painted 116 replicas of Van Gogh’s paintings, and viewed 412 Van Gogh paintings around the world. I am the founder of “Authentic Life Retreats” and offer art, writing, and creativity treks to the South of France.
Writing follows passion and one of my lifelong loves has been the letters and paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. To witness even one of his paintings thick with memories, heavy with melancholy—to read his words, his ability to straddle the human and the divine—that is what moves me.
Carol O’Dell is the author of Mothering Mother: A Daughter’s Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir published by Kunati Publishing of Canada. Carol has been published in Redbook, The Writer, Women’s Digest, Kalliope Women’s Journal, Blue Moon Review, and Atlanta Magazine. Carol is the recipient of first place in the National League of Penn Women for nonfiction and received a fellowship to the 2005 Summer Literary Series in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Carol is a Jacksonville University graduate with a B.A. in Fine Art. She is a member of AWP, Author’s Guild, and director of the Chat Noir Writer’s Circle. She currently writing the sequel to White Iris, the rest of M’s journey, Starry Nights.
Visit her website at www.caroldodell.com and her blog at www.riskplaycreate.wordpress.com
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Carol D. O’Dell
Author, Mothering Mother