Christine M. Nauman - BiographyBorn 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 the medium, 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 garden paintings during the warmer seasons, her work has been compared to Monet and Twachtman. Corot, Murphy, Innes and Pissarro for others. All compositions are unique in their musuem quality appearance and created from imagination, sketches or photographs from Nauman's 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 the 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 one thousand private and public collections. Many of them have been acquired to hang in private collections of paintings by some 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.