Carol Lee Thompson is a Classical Realist trained in the methods of the Old Masters. She graduated from The Schuler School of Fine Art and the Maryland Institute of Art with an M.F.A.

Carol Lee shows extensively and is featured in galleries throughout the country including Tucson, Washington, D.C, San Francisco, Colorado, North Carolina and Easton, Maryland.. Her work is part of many corporate and private collections including the Butler Institute of Art and the U.S. State Department. Carol Lee's exhibits include the Tucson Museum's "Women Artists and the West Show", the Gilcrease and Albuquerque Museum's "Miniature Show", The C.M. Russell Museum Auction and the Oil Painters of America Exhibits. Additionally, she has been awarded in the Cheyenne Frontier Days Museum Show, the Salmagundi Club in New York, in International Miniature Shows and in the Fredrix "Spirit of America" Competition.

Carol Lee is published in Fresh Flowers - the Best of Flower Painting and Art of the American West. She was a "Preview Artist" in Art of the West Magazine. She is also in the American Artist Magazine article, " Baltimore Realists". Southwest Art Magazine has featured her in "Collecting". She also appeared in International Art Magazine in "Master Painters of the World".

Carol Lee's art covers a wide range of subject matter from still-life, landscape, portraiture and Native American subjects. It is important to note that she follows the methods of the Old Masters. She uses only fine Belgian linen and panels she prepares. She hand grinds her pigments with black oil and makes her own Flemish Medium. Carol Lee continues to teach these techniques through classes and workshops.