Hi.
Welcome to my website. I’m a revivalist- using my God given talents of painting and teaching to build and establish the Kingdom of God here on earth. Thank you for having a look, and I hope you are blessed!
Welcome to my website. I’m a revivalist- using my God given talents of painting and teaching to build and establish the Kingdom of God here on earth. Thank you for having a look, and I hope you are blessed!
I love the sea, and find lots of inspiration at oceans and seas everywhere I go.
This is an excerpt from an EWTN TV program,”Living Divine Mercy” with Father Chris Alar that focuses on my work.
WEDU/PBS VIDEO
This episode of Arts Plus features a great interview with me and Father Chris from Saint John’s Tampa, FL. I hope you like it! WEDU/ PBS Link
THIS is an article where I share the story of how I got into writing icons. This is something people are always asking me, and the article tells the story in a way that gives the glory to God’s intervention in my life! (This is just one of the many times that God has quite literally saved my life!!☺️)
2011 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy
2011 Iconography study with Stephan Rene, London, UK
2004 Prosopon School of Iconology
2005 Nuns of New Skete Iconography Study
2006 Iconographers Tour of Russia
1998 College of New Rochelle, NY, M.S. Art Therapy
1996 St. George des Gardes, France, Icon study Introduction
1981 Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA BFA
1984 Art Students League, NY, NY, Raphael Soyer
1984-1989 National Academy of Art & Design, Printmaking
1978-2015 Ballet and Modern Dance, Alvin Ailey, Joffrey, School of American Ballet, Merce Cunningham, Broadway Dance, Marcus McGregor, Sarasota Ballet
CONTACT CHRISTINE
Graduating from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in the early 80’s’s, after receiving the painting award for outstanding achievement, Christine travelled to England to follow the work of Francis Bacon and other English painters. Hales taught drawing workshops in Plymouth, and eventually settled in Cornwall. Here she became familiar with the work of the St. Ives artists.
Eventually returning to Massachusetts, Hales got an artist’s grant from the Nantucket Arts Council and worked there for one year. She then moved to New York City to continue her study of classical ballet and maintained a loft in Chelsea for painting for the next thirteen years.
She holds a BFA n Painting and Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an MS in Art Therapy from the College of New Rochelle, NY, and has studied at the Artists League of New York, The National Academy of Design NY,NY, and Institute of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy.
Her paintings and icons have been in many national group exhibitions as well as several one person exhibits in New York. Reviewed in the New York Times and featured in Hudson Valley Magazine, Christine’s landscapes reflect the artist’s love of nature and transformation. Her work as an iconographer is in many churches, public, and private collections. Please view her CV for a more detailed list. She now lives and works in Sarasota, Florida with her photographer husband, Mick Hales.
2015 Founded American Association of Iconographers
2016, 2015 Community Arts Grant, Greene County Council of Arts
2011 Ordained non denominational Minister, Global Awakening
2005 Art Therapy Certification Board and NY State License, ATR-BC
2005 Artist in Residence Houghton College, Rochester, NY
2004 GIG Grant, Maine Commission on Art
2002 Artist in Residence Grant, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
2001, 1999 International Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT
1994 Fourth Annual Hudson Valley Painting Exhibition: First Prize, Painting
1992 Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY Best in Show Award, Painting
1989 Poughkeepsie Art & Science Center, Hudson, Valley: First Prize Painting
1984 National Academy of Art & Design, NY, NY: Printmaking Award
1978 Nantucket Arts Council, Nantucket, MA, CETA, Grant
1977 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA: Outstanding Achievement in Painting
