​Christine was raised in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia and spent parts of her summers in Guysborough County.  Inspired by lakeside skylines, the ocean, characters in liturature and small town stories, she explored landscape oil painting, colored pencil, illustration, charcoal portraits and and photography. She began selling her art at 16 and was accepted into the Chicago School of art before graduating highschool. Instead she attended her home town University, studied Art History at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design briefly, then delved into researching creativity’s spiritual connections to mental and physical wellbeing. 
 

While living in Barrington, Nova Scotia, Christine managed a small art shop in Shelburne, and painted in an empty barn on Cape Sable Island where lobster fisherman gave her weathered wood from the traps for framing her art. She worked in assemblage, harvesting the shoreline for organic materials and painting the frames in bright folk colours which she sold in the shop. She hand-painted a sign for the side of the barn, calling her own ’shop’ “Seabones” in the year 2000. Seabones has offered private and community based art education to school aged children in Antigonish, Halifax and the the south shore. 

Christine has collabated with other visual artists, (working in collage) designed album and book covers and currently offers original acrylic mixed media art, prints, photocollage prints, greeting cards, and commemorative commissions. At the moment her favourite materials are charcoal, salt, and acrylic inks. Gel printing, de-collage and negative painting and photo transfers are some of the techniques she works with daily. The subject matter focuses mostly on figures in scapes or ‘humans in their happy place’.  
 

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