Caro Nilsson | Artist & Muralist

Caro Nilsson (she/her) was born in Vancouver, Washington and haws spent her entire life building relationships with the land in America's endlessly variable biomes, and translating those feelings and findings into paintings. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts with a Distinguished Major in Printmaking, and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Caro completed her first solo painting residency at the Dacha in Mystic, CT in the Spring of 2021, and currently lives as a multi-media painter and muralist, painting full time from Salt Lake City.

When asked about her purpose, Caro beautifully explained, "My purpose, the reason I exist in the world, is to present the doorways to be in and with the magic of everything. It feels so potent to me and maybe sounds a little bit difficult to understand what that means, but to me, a doorway is like a moment of actual noticing. We go through our days so often distracted, and making lists and thinking about all the things that are happening — not exactly where we are, but that will happen later or that happened earlier — and everywhere, always, all the time, magic is happening. And the difference is opening your eyeballs and noticing."

When not working, Caro enjoys tending to her relationship with the land and with her community, mostly.

Caro can be found at carozobservations.com (or google "Caro Nilsson art") and @caroznilsson on instagram.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Groundwork with Human|Work
• Make Art Not Content, a podcast by Father Bronques
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin
• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, by Jenny O’Dell
• 4000 weeks: Time Management For Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman

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This episode was recorded in January 2025.