Christine has been an artist since age five. Raised in Warwick, Rhode Island, she attended St. Mary's Academy, Bay View in East Providence where she began her serious art and calligraphy training. Attending her first year of college at Roger Williams University, she studied Historic Preservation and Architecture. Transferring to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth's School of Visual & Performing Arts, in 1990 Christine graduated Magna Cum Laude majoring in Illustration/Visual Design with a minor in Calligraphy. Upon graduation she was hired as a graphic designer for Verizon Yellow Pages and stayed for 13 years in various management positions. Christine voluntarily left Verizon in 2003 to pursue her art full time. She attributes her business ethics to her Catholic school education and her business acumen to her time at Verizon.

Her studio painting style is very traditional, working in thin glazes of color to create realism in her botanical and wildlife artwork. She is inspired by the 16th century Dutch still life painters, 19th century American still life artist William Harnett and the Art Nouveau Movement. Working predominately in acrylic, Christine chose this medium for its technical benefits. Its quick dry time allows for an average of 20 layers of color per painting, creating photo-realism, or trompe l'oeil, in many cases. Her pieces compliment homes furnished with antiques but many have enough whimsy to enrich contemporary collections. In 2007, Artist’s Magazine named her an Animal and Wildlife art finalist in The Year’s Best Art Contest.

Christine’s plein air landscapes are created on location in two to three hour sessions, braving the elements. The pieces are created small in order to quickly capture the ever changing light and shadows that have drawn her to a location. The process sharpens her color mixing and observation skills, and allows her to experiment with looser brush work than she uses in her studio pieces. The exercise is then applied by Christine in realistic and dramatic skies and water in her mural work.

As a mural painter and faux finisher, Christine is in high demand for her flexibility of design styles that complement the owner's taste and surroundings; she works on both long and short term projects. She has studied Faux Finishing at RISD, and her 30 years of antiques appreciation uniquely qualify her to create, embellish or replicate historically accurate designs. Juried into the National Society of Mural Painters in 2006, her commissions have brought her up and down the East Coast and as far away as Romania, where in 1992 she and her husband spent a month painting murals on glass in an Onesti orphanage. Her mural work can be viewed in her online gallery at www.hannonartworks.com.

Christine is an active, artist member of the Wickford Art Association, facilitating a monthly critique night, and an associate member of the Lyme Art Association where she consistently appears in their juried shows. She, her artist husband, Joseph, their children and a terrier mix named “Theibaud” make their home and studio in Harmony, Rhode Island.

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North Scituate, RI 02857
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