ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cheri Christensen grew up in Enumclaw, Washington, a small rural town of horse, dairy and cattle ranches at the foot of Mt. Rainier. Christensen’s grandfather was a cattle rancher there, and he was a big influence on her choice of subject matter today. She attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and graduated with a BA from the University of Washington. She studied oil painting and drawing intensely for three years with Ron Lukas, a protege of Sergei Bongart, who taught in the tradition of the Russian impressionists. Christensen concentrates on seeing and conveying the effects of color and light on form.
The first painting she submitted to a competition was included in a prestigious exhibition at the Charles Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, and the first painting to include farm animals received the Beatrice Jackson Memorial award for Best Traditional Landscape in the Allied Artists of America 1995 show. Christensen has been featured in several magazines, including International
Artist sister publications American Art Collector and Western Art Collector. Christensen is represented by Mclarry Fine Art in New Mexico, Insight Gallery and Jack Meier Gallery in Texas, and Eisenhauer Gallery in Massachusetts. She has an upcoming exhibition at Mclarry Fine Art, Keeping it Light, opening July 29. See her Liliedahl instructional videos at www.painttube.tv and search “Cheri Christensen.”
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