About

The journey began with a small mosaic of a tree.  

It was a circle on top of a line and I made it at about 5 years old.

For Christmas that year, I asked Santa for a Mosaic Kit.

Raised by engineering, gardening, artistic and entrepreneurial parents, with four siblings, life was full of adventure, invention, problem solving, seeing things in a discerning way.  Creative and hands-on pursuits were a way of being in the family.

For Christina, an early painting teacher in childhood opened the door towards embracing the arts in school; ceramics, painting, and sculpture, anything to get her hands dirty in!  

Fine Art studies continued at the University of Colorado, but in time a crossroads period gave way to ‘practical’ studies in Business at the intimate Loretto Heights College in Denver (now Regis).  

Partnership in a custom Fine Jewelry business followed, which satisfied both pursuits of career and creativity. In time another career path was presented and followed, built on a knowledge of sewing, textiles passion, and engineering of apparel manufacturing. Expertise developed at small companies evolved into a creative corporate career, developing sewn products with big brands.  Employing a strategic eye for color, shape, and form, as well as problem solving skills was appreciated by large and small design organizations. 

For sanity, spirit, and future skills, alongside this now traditional career path, were private studies in sculptural and hand building pursuits. Expanding upon the dimensional skills of jewelry and furniture woodworking, through courses including weaving, sculpture, bronze casting, cement forming, and mosaic.

Upon retirement from the last branded apparel company, finally a studio evolved, where Stained Glass and other materials are utilized in two and three dimensional pieces. 

As a lifelong pursuer of outdoor activities, and as a gardener/landscaper Christina’s ‘seeing’ was honed toward balance, structure, plants, and animals, in simple and complex ways.  Her work tributes birds and animals representationally.  Layers of the earth and biology structures, are interpreted in abstract pieces through pattern and shape. 

Christina gravitated to seeing patterns in nature and was drawn early to pointillism, cubism, abstraction of shapes through ‘mosaic’ type interpretations. Breaking something down into pieces to create a whole again.  Even the work in apparel manufacturing was creating a whole from pieces of fabric.  Working with dimensional texture and color, particularly as it comes in glass, which arose from liquid, to deduce an idea is inspiring, creative, constraining, yet a perfect problem-solving pursuit.

The methodical and many layered steps and techniques required to “paint” in a hard medium suit someone who loves working with tools and getting dirty with her hands.

Contact for commissions or availability: detailsnw@icloud.com