Studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. CarolAnn Wachter has exhibited in the U.S. and France and has actively taught painting for the past seven years in both Connecticut and New York. Her style of painting has been described in the New York Times as possessing a "distinct sense of fragility.... abets the sense of emergency... It's an unsettling synthesis..."

For Ms. Wachter, art is the constant dialogue between inherent patterns and their emergence into new form -- "the appurtenance of Beauty is Ritual Design."