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Charter Member Christopher  St. John Painter - oil & acrylics

The Cloudeaters 30"x24"  -  oil on wood panel

Christopher  St. John

Born in 1974 in North Carolina, father has career in the Marine Corps, moves family around until 12, Ohio, Virginia, California, Hawaii, settles family in small town in Tennessee, high school and all the monotony of small town life in the south, studies flute and thinks about being a musician, one disastrous year at the University of Memphis culminates in a night on a roof top and laughing stars and a smiling dawn and a falling out with his family, gives a roadside bum five dollars and consequently gets into a car accident, enters the army for four years as a mechanic to pay those bills, a miserable time but the kinks get worked out, father dies, makes decision to become an artist, strange woman tracks him down and later becomes his wife, marries in Vegas footsore and joyous, son is born in Oklahoma, wife stays in army and family moves to Fairbanks, Alaska, five years there completing school, family separates briefly to finish school, comes away with BFA in painting and an abiding passion for landscape, moves back down to Colorado for happy reunion, wife deploys to Iraq, she escapes hell and moves family to Oahu where he resides four years. Wife redeploys to Iraq, escapes hell again, and settles family in Taos, New Mexico. Has been painting for ten years now. His work is deeply tied to landscape, family and the vagaries of people’s lives.

Represented by Bethel Street Gallery Honolulu, OH Web Site

Christopher  St. John Taos Painter PO Box 3454 Taos, NM 87571 Email  -  (575) 758-4356 WEB  SITE

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