Christine’s voyage to printmaking was long and winding, the way most of
life’s grand events are when viewed retrospectively. As a child growing up in
Winnipeg, Canada, she felt drawn to the visual arts. She reconsidered her
position, however, when her family was paid a visit by a temperamental and
talented European artist, who also happened to be her uncle. Christine
recalls her father commenting on their visitor, saying “Oh those artists,
they’re so selfish and crazy.” Thus forewarned, Christine looked for a
practical application for her aesthetic vision and, after finishing a psychology
major, earned an advanced degree in interior design. The work was pleasant
enough, though not really where her soul was, so she resurrected her artistic
dreams in her early thirties, eventually making it her single focus.

In the late 1990’s, she was in Taos and wandered into master printmaker
Michael Vigil’s studio where she was able to take classes. Upon finishing
there, she studied printmaking at the Universities of New Mexico and
Minnesota at Duluth. Thus her passion for printmaking was born, and she
has since focused her energies on the wonderfully rich and spontaneous
medium of monotype - one of a kind images created with ink on paper using
an etching press.

Christine’s work tends strongly toward the abstract and seeks to establish an
emotional resonance with the viewer. Her work focuses on beauty and what
she refers to as “the unspeakable”, something beyond the capacity of
language.


Adam Swenson, Stillwater Living, May 2006