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Christine Obers

United States

Born in 1953

Joined Artisor: November 2024

Artist Stats

Total pieces for sale: 1

Bio

Early on I realized I could tell a compelling story with a simple drawing using lines and shading on paper to create a powerful emotional connection. I often paint horses. They are social animals with behavior and hierarchies similar to our own. I admire their strength and conversely their timid nature. I am fascinated by this dichotomy. Power and fear are relevant in our own society. It is my thought that it is less that horses’ and animals’ behaviors mirror ours, but more that our behaviors mirror theirs. It is from this point of view that I examine the individual character of each subject I paint. In my portraits of horses, we may perceive something of ourselves.

Soft pastels are the medium I use most often. The versatility of the medium offers me a considerable range of techniques. My work is realistic. While I work from a photo as a starting point, I choose to include, delete, and enhance according to my creative instincts."

Mariposa, California based painter, Christine Obers, creates equine art, working primarily in soft pastel. Her work focuses on the relationships horses have with their humans.

Growing up in Canada, Christine began commissioned oil paintings of landscapes and animals while in her teens. After high school she studied graphic design and illustration at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario subsequently moving to the US to pursue a career in advertising. Her career as senior art director led to many opportunities to explore her creativity in a multi-faceted way while working for major corporations. In 2009 Obers retired to devote herself to fine art.

For most of her life, Christine has owned horses. She has shown and competed on her horses. Her passion took her to Portugal to study dressage and Ireland to study cross- country. Recently Christine has gone on multiple camping trips riding and packing in with mules in the High Sierra and Baja Sur.

Christine has won numerous international awards including the Master Circle, Gold Medal from the International Association of Pastel Societies and Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America. She is also a Distinguished Pastelist in the Pastel Society of the West Coast and Master Pastelist in the Pastel Artists of Canada Association.

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Bio Author: 12x12 Show (Scottsdale)

  • Artworks
  • Curriculum Vitae

Education
Graphic design and illustration, George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario
Fine Art, (no degree), Modesto Junior College, Modesto CA
Digital Art, (no degree), Modesto Junior College, Modesto CA
Self-taught

Major Juried Exhibitions and Awards
2024
12×12 Show, T.H. Brennen Fine Art/Raymar Fine Art Panels, Scottsdale,
AZ
Sam Savitt Award, American Academy of Equine Art, Aiken SC
Best of Show, Red Rock Pastel Society of Nevada, online
Art of Distinction Award, Dream Weavers, Women Artists of the West,
54th National Exhibition, Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ
Arizona Pastel Artists Association, Exhibition & Sale, Phippen Museum,
Prescott, AR
Members Only Online Exhibition, Pastel Society of the West Coast, CA
Best & Brightest, Scottsdale Art School, Scottsdale, AR

2023
Honorable Mention, Pastel Journal Top 100 for 2022, April 2023
publication
Awarded Signature Member Status, Pastel Society of America, New York,
NY
Members Only Online Exhibition, Pastel Society of the West Coast

2022

Members Award, Make Your Mark, International Art Competition, Pastel
Society of Southern California
Honorable Mention, Make Your Mark, International Art Competition, Pastel
Society of Southern California
Honorable Mention, PleinAir Magazine's 12th Annual $33,000 PleinAir
Salon Art Competition
Honorable Mention, Dakota Art Pastels, Second Quarter, Gold Category
Honorable Mention, Red Rock Pastel Society of Nevada, 2022
International, Juried Member, Online Exhibition
Judge, Pastel Guild of Europe, Member Online Exhibition
Third Place Gold Award, Pastel Society of Southern California, 13th
Annual Member's Exhibition, Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Abstracts and Impressions, Central California Art Association, Mistlin
Gallery, Modesto CA

2021
Second Place, Central California Art Association, Domestics, Home is Art
Exhibition, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA
Dakota Art Award, Pastel Society of Southern California, International
Online Exhibition
99 Voices in Pastel, Pastel Society of the West Coast, International Online
Exhibition
Red Rock Pastel Society of Nevada, Member's Online Exhibition
Left Coast Pastel Society, Online Open Exhibition

2020
Pastel Society of the West Coast, Online Open Exhibition
Pastel Society of Southern California, Online Member Exhibition

2019
Master Circle Gold Medal, International Association of Pastel Societies,
Albuquerque, NM

2018
First Place, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Online Member Exhibition
California Art Club, Art Between The Lines, Peninsula Museum Gallery,
Burlingame CA
California Art League, Rock, Paper Scissors, San Fernando Valley Art
Center Gallery, Tarzana, CA

2017
First Place, Sierra Artist’s Gallery, Mariposa, CA
Pan Pastel Award, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Purely Pastel
Exhibition, Sense of Place Gallery, Fresno, CA
Third Place, Central California Art Association, Central California Art
Showcase, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto CA

Honorable Mention, Pacific Currents, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Turlock
CA

2016
Award of Distinction, Central California Art Association, Central California
Art Showcase, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Turlock, CA
Judson Art Outfitters Award, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Pastels
USA Exhibition, Morro Bay, CA

2015
Best of Show, Pastel Society of the West Coast, First Annual Online
Members’ Juried Exhibition
First Place, California Art League, Gold Medal Exhibition, San Fernando
Valley Art Center, Tarzana CA
Fourth Place, Pan Pastel Award, Pastel Journal, Pastel 100
Competition, Portrait,1/2 page article in the April issue
International Association of Pastel Societies, Pastel World Exhibition, 23rd
Juried Exhibition, Albuquerque NM

2014
First Place, Pastel Artists of Canada, 2nd Annual Online Members’ Juried
Exhibition
People’s Choice Award, Central California Art Showcase, Central
California Art Association, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto CA

2013
Third Place, Pastel Artists of Canada, 22nd Annual Open Juried
Exhibition, Milton, ON, Canada
Honorable Mention, International Association of Pastel Societies, 2013
Web Exhibition
International Association of Pastel Societies, Pastel World, 22nd Juried
Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM

2012
Top Five Award, Dakota Pastel Art Award, Pastel Society of the West
Coast, Pastels USA, Morro, Bay, CA
Pastel Society of America, Enduring Brilliance, New York, NY

2011
First Place, Richeson Award, Landscape, Pastel Journal, Pastel 100
Competition.
Full page spread, April 2011 edition of the magazine.

Publications
American Art Collector Magazine, May 2024, article and photos

Southwest Art, April 2024, photo of my art
Pastel Journal, April 2023
American Art Collector Magazine, May 2023, article and photos
Pastel Journal, April 2015, ½ page article and photo of my art
Southwest Art Magazine, May 2015, article and photo of my art
Pastel Journal, April 2011, full page spread, article and photo of my art
Art Associations

IAPS, International Association of Pastel Artists, Master Circle
PSA, Pastel Society of American, Signature Member
PSWC, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Signature Member
PAC, Pastel Artists of Canada, Signature Member
CAC, California Art Club, Juried Member
WAOW, Women Artists of the West, Juried Member
American Women Artists, Juried Member
APAA, Arizona Pastel Artists Association
PANZ, Pastel Society of New Zealand
PSNV, Red Rock Pastel Society of Nevada, Las Vegas NV
CCAA, California Central Art Association, Modesto, CA
CCA, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Turlock, CA, Founding Member
YSA, Yosemite Sierra Artists, Oakhurst, CA
Cowgirl Artists of America
American Academy of Equine Artists

No previous artwork sold