July 2024 Featured Artist Member: Mary Christie

Award winning artist, Mary Christie, was born and raised in Southern California.  She began her formal art education at Cal State Northridge, then UC Santa Barbara, and earned her B.A. in Studio Art in 1986.  She was accepted into the Studio Art Master’s Program at CSUN, but soon moved to New Mexico to continue raising her family.  Returning home to California in 2015, she studied oil painting with John Cosby and sold work through Forest and Ocean Gallery in Laguna Beach.  While continuing to work as a psychotherapist, she is inspired by the California landscape and lifestyle.  “The landscape inspires me in both a sensory and spiritual way, and I want to share that experience of beauty with others”.