KOBO Seattle | since 1995
We are pleased to feature work by Seattle artist Christine Westergaard. Her colors, wild shapes and symbols speak to us in ways that express true emotion and feeling -- it's poetry in clay form.
Christine writes: "There is a rhythm to life, to the day, to the moment, though in our life of moments we may not recognize it and be the less for it. What is most likely to remind us of the measured flow of connections that cannot be described, and is our birthright, if not the personal vision of the artist?
In my work, landscape painting that has evolved into ceramic sculpture has lead to the reduction of representational elements of nature into the abstract. For me the unadorned experience of pure color and form echos the sacred thrum of a walk in the woods.”
Christine holds an MFA from The Claremont Graduate School and has taught drawing, painting and printmaking on the college level. She is a practicing artist and has also had a career as a landscape designer. Since moving to the Northwest over 20 years ago, she has shown her work in regional juried and invitational exhibitions.
