Carola Laurel Gough was my great-grandmother. She was my mother's father's mother. She passed away after a stroke on July 25th, 2007. She was born in Washington state on April 17th, 1911.
She lived an incredible life that everyone who knows her or knows of her aims to emulate. Her entire life can be summarized by the advice she always gave me:
"Whatever life has to throw at you, run to meet it head on!"
In April of 2007 she turned 96 years old. We had a family reunion in Alameda, California to celebrate. At that time I sat down with her to start what I hoped would be the start of a lengthy interview with her, one that I planned to visit her in August to complete.
Life can sometimes make us wish we had acted much sooner on our good intentions. However, I am thankful that I had a chance to record her speaking for 15 minutes about a handful of her more than 100 paintings.
Complete Paintings and Writings
Visit Carola's web site at http://www.CarolaGough.com to learn more about her and view more than 100 of her paintings. You can also read some of her journals that chronicle the life in Zaire in Africa that her husband Gene and she lived in the early seventies.
Interview with Carola Gough in April of 2007 about her Artwork
Selected Paintings and Recordings
Here are a few of the paintings I recorded her speaking about. For the complete set of paintings, visit the link to Flickr below.
Click to listen to an interview with Carola L. Gough about this painting.
Click to listen to an interview with Carola L. Gough about this painting.
Click to listen to an interview with Carola L. Gough about this painting,
Click to listen to an interview with Carola L. Gough about this painting.
Click to listen to an interview with Carola L. Gough about this painting.
Click to listen to an interview with Carola L. Gough about this painting.
Complete Set of Painting Interviews
These are all the paintings I had a chance to record her speaking about. Click a thumbnail to visit the full size image. You will find a link to an MP3 recording on that page.
