CAROL HANSEN

Artist and Gallery Owner

Carol Hansen was the kid in the class who could draw. Yet after graduating high school she fled the South African suburbs for the towers and discothèques of Johannesburg. Computers in 1973 had begun to infiltrate humanity, and Carol found herself being trained as a computer programmer.

Her German and Dutch heritage nudged her to travel after a few years of office life. She met a Nova Scotian on a kibbutz in Israel, and travelled with him back to Africa, and later Canada. Arriving in Nova Scotia in 1976,  Carol worked in a lobster plant, while attending NSCAD University where she graduated with a Fine Arts Degree.

Decades later, settled on the south shore, Carol opened the Captains House Gallery in 2021. Her art journey continues from printmaker, to pastels, to acrylic paint. She enjoys commissions as well.