About Christine Olivo
Since childhood, drawing and painting have been a way that I have found to express myself. Living in the Napa Valley, I have been inspired to reinvent myself, and my painting style. I love nature, its colors and the way light plays on everything.
Through the medium of oil painting, I have expanded my own color perception. I use paint strokes to enhance form. I like to paint the essence of a landscape, simplifying what I see and selecting the color and light relationships.
As I continue to study art, I find that I return most often to the Impressionists. Most of my landscape paintings are "plein air" so as to discern color relationship and capture the varying lights in nature.
My paintings are not limited to landscapes. I love to "zero" in on objects and study them up close and personal. I did a series on old, rusted, cars that were falling apart. They seemed to have a story to tell and painting them on canvas, seemed to bring them back to life.
Painting is a language all itself, and it is an adventure for me, that will keep me inspired for the rest of my life.