C. Nauman

Born 1954 and raised in Chatham, New Jersey, Christine Nauman demonstrated natural talent at a young age.  Beginning lessons in pastel at age nine and oil at age eleven, she created in the classical style.  As the years progressed, she devoted herself professionally working in oil.  Nauman mirrors a Tonalist's palette and an Impressionist's brushstroke creating paintings from  imagination, sketches or photographs from her global travels.

A relocation to Tokyo in 1982 - 1986 changed her understanding of the arts.  Observing infinite beauty in simplicity, she refined her perspective while viewing one object at a time and noticed an ethereal quality appear. Applying the same principle of simplicity creating a landscape, garden or cityscape painting, she rids compositions of the inessentials to accent her painting's focal point.  Personalizing a sentiment within herself, she conveys a particular time of day and season in her paintings.

Excluding years of self study from her extensive collection of art history books and visiting museums, training is as follows:

1963-1965 - Still-life, figurative and landscape in pastel - Chatham, New Jersey

1965-1966 - Still-life and landscape in oil - Chatham, New Jersey

1973-1975 - Liberal Arts - Centenary College for Women - Hackettstown, New Jersey

1979-1981 - Methods of the Masters in oil - Houston, Texas

1983-1986 - The Ichiyo School of Floral Art - Tokyo

1984-1985 - Life Drawing in charcoal - Tokyo

1987-1989 - Life Drawing in charcoal - New Jersey Center of Fine Art - Summit

Exhibiting for 25 years in solo and group shows and receiving numerous awards, her work is in over a thousand private collections.  Corporate collectors include Kuwait National Petroleum, Kraft Foods Corporation and Xerox Corporation.

Christine Nauman lives in Illinois with her husband and works daily in her studio.