Artist's Statement “I make images to make sense of the world...to make sense of life and death, pain and suffering, joy and ecstasy. It's not something I seek. I learned that it just happens. Somewhere during the act of creation, my thoughts stop, my mind becomes still, I feel the fullness of the moment, and a sense of surrender takes over. Within this surrender, there is clarity and, somehow, things make sense. That's why I make images. It just makes everything right.” Back to Top

Biography Born in Wisconsin, Christine grew up in southern California and lived there through her mid-twenties. She then began her journey east, spending about ten years in northern Indiana before settling in Maine. Once in Maine, Christine knew she would never live anywhere else. Christine began studying and practicing photography in mid-life. Never having taken cameras very seriously before, things changed once she acquired a camera to take photographs of the magnificent world around her camp in northern Maine. Christine quickly discovered that a camera gave her much more than pictures. She learned that her camera was a tool for seeing. With her camera in hand, she looked at the world more attentively. She quite literally saw things she had never seen before. Christine's camera brought her a whole new world...in some ways, a whole new life. Christine's photographic training has mainly been completed at the world-renowned Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. There she has studied with Jan Rosenbaum, Shannon Ayres, Terry Abram, and Doug Beasley. In 2011 Christine left her career in education, having completed nineteen years as Registrar and Director of Institutional Research at Bowdoin College. She decided it was time to think about her livelihood in terms of expressing her innermost self. She founded Shanti Arts LLC to support and promote interests related to art, writing, and spirituality. The company publishes two art-focused magazines. The first, Still Point Arts Quarterly focuses on artistic expression and creativity. Each issue includes portfolios from several contemporary artists as well as articles, essays, fiction, and poetry about art and artistry. The second publication, Stone Voices, focuses on the connection between visual arts and spirituality. It also includes art portfolios, articles, fiction, and poetry. In addition to publishing, Christine continues to direct Still Point Art Gallery, a virtual gallery that opened its first exhibition in April of 2009. With its enthusiastic and personal approach to exhibiting art and promoting artists, the Gallery has become one of the premier virtual art galleries of its type. Christine and her husband, David, and their Irish Setters live in Brunswick, Maine and spend as much time as possible at their camp in northern Maine on Upper Shin Pond. Back to Top

Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions Musings in Maine Woods and Fields. The TIME Gallery. Portland, Maine. June 2 - 25, 2010. Musings in Maine Woods and Fields. Lancaster Lounge in the Moulton Union on the Bowdoin College Campus. Brunswick, Maine. May 3-29, 2010. Pieces. Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library. Boothbay Harbor, Maine. December 2 - 31, 2008.   Selected Group Exhibitions Winter 3 and Winter 7. Small Works Exhibition. SOHO Photo. New York, New York. February 8 - March 3, 2011. Images of Brunswick, Maine. Brunswick Town Council Chambers. Selected as one of two artists to exhibit at the opening of the new Brunswick Town Council Chambers at Maine Street Station. November 2009 through January 2010. Brunswick, Maine. [Read Article from Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.] Selected to be part of Maine Art Scene's 1st Statewide Online Multi-Disciplinary Juried Virtual Showcase. 2009-2010. Rose's House 2. Art Institute and Gallery. Eighteenth Annual National Juried Exhibition. Salisbury, Maryland. September 12 - October 10, 2009. Casco Bay Under Ice, in Nature's Whispers, Nature's Shouts: Photographing the Natural World. Vermont Photography Workplace. Middlebury, Vermont. June 20 - July 11, 2009. Lone Trees in Early Winter. Katharine Butler Gallery 4th Annual National Juried Exhibition. Sarasota, Florida. April 15 - May 9, 2009. Approaching Storm. d'ART Center 19th Annual Mid-Atlantic Exhibition. Norfolk, Virginia. March 6 - April 17, 2009. White Crocus, in Up Close and Personal. L/A Arts Gallery 5. Lewiston, Maine. February 4 - March 7, 2009. Dusk Over Maquoit Bay and Fresh Snow. Tenth Annual Landscape Juried Online International Art Exhibition. Received SPECIAL RECOGNITION. Upstream People Gallery, www.upstreampeoplegallery.com. July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009. The Dock on a Summer Evening. Maine Photography Show. Boothbay, Maine. May 9 – 25, 2008. Fresh Snow. New England Artists’ Exhibition, Turner Center for the Arts. Turner, Maine. March 19 - April 26, 2008. Gray Day at the Pond. Summer Juried Show. Maine Art Gallery. Wiscasset, Maine. June 9 - July 8, 2007. Gray Day at the Pond. Maine Photography Show. Boothbay, Maine. April 14 - 29, 2007.    Private Collections Patiently Waiting. Meadow Clover. Trillium. These three pieces were selected to hang in the newly constructed Maine Medical Center's East Tower, which was built to house Women and Infant Services beginning September 2008. Portland, Maine. Back to Top

Links Camera Club of New York Center for Fine Art Photography Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine SOHO PHOTO Back to Top