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  • Artist Statement – “SPRING RITES”

    "With these paintings I want to honor a very honest yearning for beauty, light, and pure artistic intent. The larger paintings embrace a world of shifting light and color where the figure is on the verge of being assimilated into the landscape. The smaller paintings of flowers in vessels offer a distillation of these larger landscapes. I want to leave the door a little more open for the viewer than I have been want in the past and try to step out of the way to let in some of the beautiful light the world offers to us all."

    CHRISTOPHER ST. JOHN
    2013

More About Christopher St. John

CHRISTOPHER ST. JOHN, painter   I studied art at the University of Alaska, BFA in painting and printmaking. I was in the army for four years, worked as a mechanic. I studied music when I was younger and thought I would be a musician. I have a son who is fourteen, my wife spent 15 … Read more