🎭 Given my inauspicious foray into the world of visual arts and all that it offers, I seem to have accumulated enough pieces of art now to showcase them on this shiny new website for all to see.
🎨 And so I offer a selection of paintings; mostly oils, all palette knife work and usually on wood panels.
✏️ Accompanying them are a sprinkle of pencil sketches and an increasing number of wood sculptures and pyrography art, and then some ceramics and rock sculpting, the latter of which is a recent pursuit.
📸 Photography has always been present in my life so this would not be complete with at least a few images.
And through all of this I am unashamedly self-taught and enjoy ‘making it up as I go along’; exploring new mediums, which may eventually find their way here.
🎧 For those who are familiar with my podcasts, I’ve added links to various shows under Podcasts since art is featured in most everything I do in questo momento.
✍🏻 When I have the itch to write you can find some of the articles on my News page. And here is the link to my Substack page for other topics, such as reviews of sports events.
📚Below that is my library list from the past few years because I have to spend some time every day with my nose in a book. 😊
Chris
My library…
2026
- Raising Hare / Chloe Dalton
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes / Jason Fagone (Audio)
- Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin / Sue Prideaux
- After Auschwitz / Eva Schloss
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Kindle)
- Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists / Donna Seaman
- The Nine / Gwen Strauss (Audio)
- Madame Fourcade’s Secret War / Lynne Olson (Audio)
- D-Day Girls / Sarah Rose
- West with the Night / Beryl Markham
- One Last Shot / Kip Wilson (audio)
- A Flower Travelled in my Blood / Haley Cohen Gilliland (Audio)
- Women of War / Suzanne Cope (Audio)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot (Audio)
- Grape Juice / Eliza Dumas
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion / Beth Brower
- Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster / Stephen Carter
- River of Books / Donna Seaman
- Heat and Dust / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The Berlin Letters / Katherine Reay
- The Place of Tides / James Rebanks
- The Correspondent / Virginia Evans (audio)
- The Goldfinch / Donna Tartt
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo / Taylor Jenkins Reid
- A History of France in 21 Women / Katherine Pangolins (audio)
- The History of Art: Painting from Giotto to the Present Day / A.N. Hodge (audio)
- Greta Garbo / Karen Swenson
- Waters of Life / Tom Browser
- The Renoir Girls / Catherine Ostler (audio)
- The Librarian of Burned Books / Brianna Labuskes
2025
- After The Romanovs / Helen Rappaport
- The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post / Allison Pataki
- Clementine / Sonia Purnell
- The Paris Girl / Francelle Bradford White
- The Woman They Could Not Silence / Kate Moore
- Love and War in the Pyrenees / Rosemary Bailey
- Here Lies the Heart / Mercedes de Acosta
- The Spy Who Loved / Clare Mulley
- Paris in Ruins / Sébastian Smee
- Astor / Anderson Cooper
- Frida / Haydon Herrera
- Lost & Found / Kathryn Schultz
- The Light of Days / Judy Battalion
- One Good Thing / Georgia Hunter
- Eleanor / David Michaelis
- The Briar Club / Kate Quinn
- The Aviator and The Showman / Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- All the Way to the River / Elizabeth Gilbert
- Get The Picture / Bianca Bosker
- The Woman who Painted the Seasons / Penny Fields Schneider
- The Art Spy / Michelle Young
- The Librarians of Lisbon / Suzanne Nelson
- Wine and War / Don & Petie Kladstrup
- Family of Spies / Christine Kuehn
- The Book Thief / Markus Zusak
2024
- Death in Spring / Mercè Rodoreda
- Lessons in Chemistry / Bonnie Garmus
- The Sisterhood / Liza Mundy
- The Women / Kristin Hannah
- In Order to Live / Yeonmi Park
- It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War / Lynsey Addario
- The Personal Librarian / Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray ( Latifat Apatira
- The Spy who Loved / Clare Mulley
- The Secrets we Kept / Lara Prescott
- In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked / Jonna Mendez
- Lev’s Violin / Helena Atlee (JC)
- Kingmaker / Sonia Purnell
- The Safekeep / Yael van der Wouden
- The Land Where Lemons Grow / Helena Atlee (JC)
- We Were The Lucky Ones/Georgia Hunter (Kirsten Schmitt)
- The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line / Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder
- Madame Bouvery / Gustav Flaubert
2023
- Clay / Melissa Harrison
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies / John Boyne
- The Confessions of Franny Langton / Sara Collins
- Birnam Wood / Eleanor Catton
- Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger / Ken Perenyi
- Ninth Street Women / Mary Gabriel
- Fierce Poise / Alexander Nemerov
- The Art Thief / Michael Finley
- The Diamond Eye / Kate Quinn
- The Woman Who Stole Vermeer / Anthony M Amore
- The Postcard / Anne Berest
- The Only Woman in The Room / Marie Benedict
- A Higher Call / Adam Makos
- Code Girls / Liza Mundy
- The Paris Deception / Bryn Turnbull
2022
- City of Girls / Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Searcher / Tana French
- Great Circle / Maggie Shipstead
- The Great Fire / Shirley Hazard
- Longbourn / Jo Baker
- Where the Crawdads Sing / Delia Owens
- In The Woods / Tana French
- The Lincoln Highway / Amor Towles
- Red Notice / Bill Browder
- Point of Origin / Patricia Cornwell
- Deadfall / Linda Fairstein
- Freezing Order / Bill Browder
- The Rose Code / Kate Quinn
- Out of the Water / Ann Marie Stewart
- Small Pleasures / Clare Chambers
- The Four Winds / Kristen Hannah
