Redwine Art Gallery
about the artist
About the Artist
Christopher Russell Redwine
I grew up in Glendale, Southern California. When I was 19, I moved to Hawaii, then the Lake Tahoe area. In my late 20's, I moved back to Southern California, lived in Sunland-Tujunga, Santa Monica, Laguna Beach, and then Dana Point, I moved back up to the Tahoe area in the early 90's, and have lived here since then. I'm now living on the Carson River in small town Dayton, Nevada.
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My process has always been pretty much exploritory and experimental, right brain, subconscious, introspective, sometimes accidental, other times purposeful. I tap into the creative force inside. There are really no "reasons why" for most of my art, if it is interesting to me, I like it. if not, I don't. My recent unfinished paintings are impressionistic landscapes of imaginary places in my mind, letting the painting tell me what it will be. Check out my "Recent Artwork" page for a look at some of my new works in progress, unfinished paintings.
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I'm constantly inspired by nature and creative thoughts, but I've been suffering artist's block on and off, most my life. Occasionally I get the urge to create, when there is some happiness going on in my life.
After creating a lot of art in my twenties, I finally gave up and became a ceramic tile setter - marble mason. Over the years, I would occasionally get the urge to create, this site is an archive of some of the things I've done. I haven't yet included all my airbrushed clothing designs , photographs, and commercial designs.
Around 2000 to '04, I was inspired again when high tech enabled artists to make their own limited edition prints on demand. I spent about a year and all my money building this site. I get a lot of people visiting my site, but still not enough sales to live on. I work my ass off for a meager living in a rich man's world. My creativity would flow if I didn't have to earn a living doing construction work to just survive.
I tried writing a possible science fiction novel or movie, it's pretty strange, crude, and out there, with a couple of chapters roughly written, but still in the conceptual stage. It was only an experiment in writing. If you want to read it, you can check it out at this link:
"Kim's Beach"
Premonition
"I did have a dream the other night, of you, with your kindness, caring, and love, feeling the golden contentment and joy, lost so long ago, as if you'd never turned to frosted stone....
The full moon is near now....
This night, will your maternal soul heal the pain of the girlchild within?,..... unlikely, since a thousand prayers were already unanswered.....a forgiveness that doesn't forgive anyone but yourself, for loving, as if it should ever have to be forgiven......
Blessed and condemned by beauty, ellusive moonchild of love, with a saddened tempered heart, a lone timeless yearning goes on for you now, as it will always ...
My heart knows no logic"
C.R., 4/20/08
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