Friday, June 27, 2014

Paintings Of James Christensen

By Darren Hartley


James Christensen paintings are inspired by the world's myths, fables and tales of imagination. They add up to more than beautiful, sometimes curious looking, works of art. They look at the world as a classroom. This stems from the fact that James taught art professionally for over 20 years.

The early James Christensen paintings were creations of fantasy images meant for the private amusement of James. As a child, James loved to tell stories and uses his imagination in both his playing and drawing activities. James attended Santa Monica City College, UCLA and Brigham Young University, where he earned a Masters degree.

The universal predicaments of the fantastic characters in James Christensen paintings touched a chord in the lives of other people and bring a wry smile of recognition from them. People found themselves relating to one of James' overdressed, self important little characters in his Poofy Guy in a Short Leash painting.

James Christensen paintings convey either a message, an inspiration or a simple laugh. James has always believed that teaching people to use their imagination helps in finding solutions to soothe the myriad stresses of everyday life.

James Christensen paintings include Waiting for the Tide. In it is featured a man standing on the shore and demanding for the tide to come in. Instead of demanding, he decides to sit back, relax, smell the seaweed and enjoy life as it is. He figures it's nice being just out so he enjoys his time by sipping a cup of tea with shots of fortitude.

One of the James Christensen paintings comes with a free booklet explaining all of 72 superstitions. Entitled Superstitions, it divulges that life is a precarious business, so much so that ancient forebears became keen to stack the cosmic deck. What hurt can wishing upon a falling star, bewaring of the black cat or picking up a lucky penny bring?




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