Paintings in Oil & Pastel
Chris attained a BFA in painting and two dimensional design from Harford Art School in 1973 and found work in the advertising field for the last 40 years. She has been Creative Director at numerous ad agencies and in 1986 broke off on her own to start her own company. She works with artists in that cross-over world of fine art and digital photography to teach them how to better promote themselves.

After raising four daughters, Chris returned to her passion and works in pastels and oils. She is the current President of the CT Pastel Society where she also holds Signature Artist Membership. Chris is also a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, an Elected Artist Member at Lyme Art Association and with Academic Artists of America.

Other memberships are with
Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, CT Women Artists, Salmagundi Club NYC, CT Society of Portrait Artists, and numerous other art organizations.

 Chris has won numerous awards and has paintings in private collections throughout New England. Her paintings were chosen by the International Association of Pastel Societies as one of eight finalists worldwide in two of the IAPS cover competition and placed First in Pastels in the 2007 Richeson 75 Landscape Show, WI.

Most recently she was inducted into the IAPS Master Circle of Pastelists. She was juried into PaintAmerica's Top 100 Artists for 2008 with a show that will travel the country for the next two years visiting Galleries and Museums. Chris will also be published in Best of American Artists 2009 Pastel Edition and was honored with the Art Spirit Foundation Silver Medal Award for Excellence in Pastel at the Salmagundi Club in NYC.

Chris and her husband David live in Central Connecticut.

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