Example Artwork
Thawing Bouquet
Watercolor Original
Watercolor Original
Recent Events
February 2008 First Friday: “Color Me Red”
Join us Friday, February 1st from 5 to 7pm for “Color Me Red”, a multi-media group show exploring the power of the color red.
Preview the Red Show
(Come to the gallery to see more!)
Preview the Red Show
(Come to the gallery to see more!)
October 2007 First Friday: Barstow, Fortner, and Fowler
Come to the gallery Friday, October 5th from 5 to 7 pm for the opening of our new show. We are featuring painters Bill Barstow, Christine Fortner, and Jim Fowler. The artists provide three different approaches to viewing the Alaskan landscape, creating artwork that is both beautiful and full of color.
View Barstow’s New Work
View Fortner’s New Work
View Fowler’s New Work
View Barstow’s New Work
View Fortner’s New Work
View Fowler’s New Work
Biography
Artist Christine Fortner creates her paintings from direct observation. She uses bright colors and more often than not you will find some interesting piece of glassware as the main subject. Fortner considers her work modern representation, since she never hesitates to amplify a color or change a shape to improve the overall composition.
Christine’s work was selected for inclusion in a “Best of Watercolor” series distributed by the prestigious North Light Books. Titled In Watercolor: Flowers, it is one of a series of five books published by Rockport Publishers. She has also had an artist profile written in “American Artist Watercolor”, a quarterly magazine published in New York. Executive Editor Stanley Marcus stated, “Fortner’s still lifes are vibrant, complex paintings that burst with color...Her compositions, with their unusual juxtapositions of shapes, reflections, and lines function as a whole - if just one unit were removed, the paintings would suffer, they are so expertly put together.”
Fortner’s paintings have been included in several national competitions, and she is a juried member of Watercolor West and the Alaska Watercolor Society. She has had several solo shows and her work is in the permanent collection of the Alaska Museum of History and Art.
Artist Christine Fortner creates her paintings from direct observation. She uses bright colors and more often than not you will find some interesting piece of glassware as the main subject. Fortner considers her work modern representation, since she never hesitates to amplify a color or change a shape to improve the overall composition.
Christine’s work was selected for inclusion in a “Best of Watercolor” series distributed by the prestigious North Light Books. Titled In Watercolor: Flowers, it is one of a series of five books published by Rockport Publishers. She has also had an artist profile written in “American Artist Watercolor”, a quarterly magazine published in New York. Executive Editor Stanley Marcus stated, “Fortner’s still lifes are vibrant, complex paintings that burst with color...Her compositions, with their unusual juxtapositions of shapes, reflections, and lines function as a whole - if just one unit were removed, the paintings would suffer, they are so expertly put together.”
Fortner’s paintings have been included in several national competitions, and she is a juried member of Watercolor West and the Alaska Watercolor Society. She has had several solo shows and her work is in the permanent collection of the Alaska Museum of History and Art.

