March Gallery Artist
Our featured artist in March is iconographer Christine Hales.
Please stop by and enjoy the work of this talented local artist. Checks should be written to All Angels by the Sea.
Christine will be hosting an open house after the 10:00 church service on March 16th to talk about her Icons.
Please stop by and enjoy the work of this talented local artist. Checks should be written to All Angels by the Sea.
Christine will be hosting an open house after the 10:00 church service on March 16th to talk about her Icons.
Artist Biography
Christine Simoneau Hales holds a BFA in Painting and Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and an MS in Art Therapy from the College of New Rochelle, NY, and has studied with the Art Students League in New York, the National Academy of Design, New York City, and Institute of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy. She has also studied the art of iconography with many master iconographers in this country and abroad and travelled to Russia in 2006 to see Icons in icon studios, churches and museums.
Her paintings and icons have been in many group exhibitions as well as in several solo exhibitions in New York and Florida. Reviewed in the New York Times, and featured in Hudson Valley Magazine, Christine’s landscapes reflect the artist’s love of nature and transformation. Her work as an iconographer is in many churches and in public and private collections.
Christine currently has a large retrospective of her icons at Saint Peter’s Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Florida until April 29. Her exhibition, “Sacred Images” will be at All Angels Church on Long Boat Key and will run from March 1st through April 30th.
Christine Simoneau Hales holds a BFA in Painting and Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and an MS in Art Therapy from the College of New Rochelle, NY, and has studied with the Art Students League in New York, the National Academy of Design, New York City, and Institute of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy. She has also studied the art of iconography with many master iconographers in this country and abroad and travelled to Russia in 2006 to see Icons in icon studios, churches and museums.
Her paintings and icons have been in many group exhibitions as well as in several solo exhibitions in New York and Florida. Reviewed in the New York Times, and featured in Hudson Valley Magazine, Christine’s landscapes reflect the artist’s love of nature and transformation. Her work as an iconographer is in many churches and in public and private collections.
Christine currently has a large retrospective of her icons at Saint Peter’s Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Florida until April 29. Her exhibition, “Sacred Images” will be at All Angels Church on Long Boat Key and will run from March 1st through April 30th.