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.