Burnish, Christine Petty

Burnish, Christine PettyArtist: Christine Petty Title: Burnish Medium: Mixed media assemblage Price: $1,850 Dimensions: 27 x 45 x 3 inches Artist Bio: Christine Petty was born in New York City, raised all over the States and graduated from Colegio Roosevelt High School in Lima Peru. She lives and works in Philadelphia. Her work is in private collections in Piedmont, California; Los Altos Hills, California; Bellevue, Washington; Lake Oswego, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah;

After coming to United States for graduate school

Dimensions: 9 x 10 inches

I'm trying to see things better

I used to work as a florist and I was interested in the way we discuss the “relationship” between flowers when you create an arrangement

She continues to learn and develop her figurative art skills and works primarily with oil paint

I am incorporating the skull being held as if it’s part of ritual

I am a mother to an adorable little toddler and wife to one of my favorite people in the world

I felt in part that I was home

About the Artist: My love for relief printmaking started when an art teacher introduced me to it when I was a teenager

and mixed media that involves nature and centers on the family—past

our potential

where she studied painting under nationally recognized artist