{"product_id":"market-blooms-i","title":"Market Blooms I","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal Oil\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Cristina Cook \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFramed Size:  13” x 11”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLocal Utah Artist \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist Statement:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom an early age I loved any opportunity to create.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eI remember very few gifts I received as a child, but one that stands out was a gift certificate for art classes my parents gave me for Christmas in the first grade. They believed in me and wanted to develop my talent just as much as I did.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Jr high and high school I signed up for art classes when schedules would permit. However, when I began my undergraduate degree in the health sciences, there wasn't space in my full schedule to add more art credits.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFast forwarding to 2021, some close friends invited me to attend a multi-day plein air painting course. I scrounged up a used portable easel, replaced my dried-up oil paints, and quickly bought a few brushes. Thankfully, my artistic pilot light stayed lit while on hold all those years, and I could dial it up once more.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToday, I am proudly a mother of five first. Where few moments of calmness to paint exist while attending to young ones, I notice that during the mundane housework, my mind constantly works in the background, resolving the paint, color, and compose on the canvas in progress that sits on my easel in the art den. I love it when a \"freeish\" moment opens, and I can quickly devote even 45 minutes during toddler naps and between carpools to put the brush on the canvas and catch up to what my mind has been working through.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cristina Cook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46064896377030,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/5685\/9471\/files\/948D2BE7-A813-4AF4-891A-2FCC52A5C3FF.jpg?v=1784054493","url":"https:\/\/thefoxshop.co\/products\/market-blooms-i","provider":"The Fox Shop and Market","version":"1.0","type":"link"}