1. What name do you go by as an artist?
Chris.
2. What type of medium/s do you most often use?
I use many different mediums in isolation, but I feel mixed media often brings rise to my best work.
3. How long have you been an artist?
I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. I first started painting and sculpting as a teenager.
4. How long have you been blessed to be a full time artist?
Although I feel as though I have been committed to my artwork full time for a very long while, I have been working as only an artist for just over a year.
5. Why do you create?
I create because I must.
6. What was one of the most memorable pieces you ever created?
How I created Urban Sprawl (see below) is one of my fondest memories. I first primed a canvas with bright yellow and dull brown paint (not a typical color choice for me), leaving one definitive stripe of yellow stretching vertically across it. And then I just set it aside. I wasn’t sure why I had chosen those colors, or why I didn’t blend the final line of yellow, but I decided to just let everything simmer in my head. Over two months later I finally picked it back up and finished what is today one of my most inspired pieces. The rest of the creation shot from my brain and out through my fingertips in a frenzy. Every movement of my paintbrush was confident and calculated.
7. What was the hardest piece you ever had to part with?
Broken (see below)
8. What does art mean to you?
It is how I speak. To me it language in its purest form. When I witness someone viewing my art and their expression changes; they smile, or their brow furrows, or maybe they even gasp…that is communication through interaction. No words do that.
9. What advice do you have for a new artist just getting started?
Be diligent.
10. Why do you like having your art in Wet Paint Gallery?
Urban Sprawl
3 comments:
If you do another interview, I would like to hear Chris talk about the theme of trees that shows up in her work.
I agree with Stephanie.
Broken will always be one of my very favorite's of Chris's work and certainly the most powerful piece she's done.
"Broken" is an almost eerie reflection of the results of the tornadoes in Springfield and the sadness that followed. Powerful stuff.
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