Biography

Christie Scheele has been painting devotedly since receiving her BFA in 1980, and began exhibiting and selling her work in 1985. While getting her BFA, she spent a year on fellowship at the Royal Academy of Fine Art and the University Complutense of Madrid in 1978-79.

She has exhibited nationally for 40 years, during which time her work has landed in hundreds of private, corporate,  and museum collections around the world.

STATEMENT

Christie Scheele is a contemporary landscape painter who interprets images that hold personal meaning and resonant messages about our planet. With the right atmospherics, anything and everything can reflect a powerful beauty -- from headlights on a lonely road or storms, flood and fire: to the timeless presence of salt marsh, sea, or mountains. Open, dynamic compositions, shifting fields of color, and considered edges can interact with content to evoke a direct response from the viewer, creating an intimate experience with the painting. 

The artworks in vintage boxes, drawers, or sifters all start with the look of the distressed support, as the painting itself springs from a visual response to the object, honoring the history that it carries.