Born 1954 and raised in Chatham, New Jersey, Christine M. Nauman
demonstrated natural talent at a young age. Beginning lessons in
pastel at age nine, she exhibited portraits in pastel in a northeastern
fine art gallery with professional artists at age eleven.
Expressing the desire for her work to last lifetimes, she was
encouraged to begin creating paintings in one of the oldest and most
permanent mediums; oil. Remaining devoted to oil,
she combines a Tonalist's palette with an Impressionist's brush stroke
for her ethereal landscapes depicting autumn and winter
scenes, while also creating floral
landscapes and gardens with an Impressionist's palette. Her work
has
been compared to Monet, Pissarro, Van Gogh and Twachtman for her floral
paintings. Corot, Murphy and Innes for her subdued work.
All compositions are unique in their museum quality
appearance and created from imagination, sketches or photographs from
her global
travels.
A relocation to Tokyo in 1982 - 1986 broadened her interpretation
of the arts. Observing infinite beauty in simplicity, she refined
her perspective viewing one object at a time and noticed an ethereal
quality appear. Applying the same principle of simplicity to her
paintings, she eliminates compositions of the inessentials to
accentuate beauty within specific focal points.
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, Japan
1984-1985 - Life Drawing in charcoal - Tokyo, Japan
1987-1989 - Life Drawing in charcoal - New Jersey Center of Fine Art - Summit
Exhibiting for over a few decades in solo and group shows and receiving
numerous awards, her work is in over twelve hundred private and
public collections. Many of them have been acquired to hang in private collections next to paintings by master artists from the past; Corot, Monet and Pissarro. Corporate collectors include Kuwait National Petroleum,
Kraft Foods Corporation and Xerox Corporation.
Christine Nauman lives in Illinois with her husband and works from her home studio.