Early Life and Artistic Awakening Carol Sutton, born Carol Lorraine Sutton on September 3, 1945, in Norfolk, Virginia, emerged from a childhood steeped in creativity and the raw beauty of the Chesapeake Bay. Her formative years were spent not within city walls but nestled in a log cabin perched high above the Atlantic Ocean’s sand dunes—a landscape that would indelibly shape her artistic sensibility. This early immersion in nature wasn't merely scenic; it was foundational. Sutton recalls a childhood filled with building sandcastles, swimming in the ocean, and sketching from a remarkably youn…