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Nocturnal Blooms
$450.00
Product Details:
Original Oil
by Cristina Cook
Framed Size: 14” x 16”
Local Utah Artist
Artist Statement:
From an early age I loved any opportunity to create. I 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.
In 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.
Fast 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.
Today, 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.