About the Artist

Cara Markovich was born in San Francisco, California and raised in Petaluma where she resides with her husband and three children.

She received a bachelor’s degree in painting and drawing at the University of California at Santa Cruz after studying art at the Santa Rosa Junior College.  She worked as a photographer for years while juggling several jobs to make ends meet.  Throughout that time she painted as a muralist before becoming an elementary school art teacher.  After working with children for over a decade she decided to follow her passion and become a full time painter.

I've always been an artist but never believed I could be just that.  Over the years I have worked extremely hard doing countless jobs always dreaming of the day I would just create.  Via a vision quest I was able to make my dream a reality.

 I am obsessed with this building...since I was a child I've been drawn to it.  Although I paint and photograph many subjects I always return to the Dairymen's mill.   Markovich

”Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.“
Franz Kafka