Fire Zinnia

Fire ZinniaChristina Weaver grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington. She has received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for artists who work representationally and was recently a resident artist at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has taught art in a variety of settings and

Christina Weaver grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington. She has received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for artists who work representationally and was recently a resident artist at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has taught art in a variety of settings and currently teaches drawing and painting at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Her paintings are exhibited nationwide, collected worldwide, and her work has been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Christina lives near Waynesville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

About this collection:
"Garden Party"
These paintings and drawings celebrate the plants that grow in my garden and exist at the edge of it, and the processes that enable that growth. Petals, foliage, and kitchen scraps offer rich opportunities
for the study of color, shape, and surface. I work from life, mostly outside, collecting observations of natural subjects over time. These unfolding cues guide my use of the the chosen medium - transparency and opacity, hard and soft transitions, color harmonies and dissonance. The works unfold as layered documents of the moments I spend looking.