Artist Statement & Curriculum Vitae - Christine Hahner Murdock

Trying to make a living as artist requires not just skills, but the willingness to serve your audience as well. Sometimes you need to create for of your surroundings, that change wherever you go, why it is so important to travel - --. Where can the artist express her creativity? The artist does not just need skill, but also emotions, which can be added to whatever she does.

I love to use art to educate others and myself. Through art, I harness visuals to make people stop, think and learn.

In 2008, I started working on my PhD in art and education, but got side-tracked by a different, but related research topic. I realized, that certain shapes in certain forms can evoke certain sentiments. I wondered, how far I would be able to take this realization. So I began painting 'states of minds' or 'sentiments'. Parallel to working intuitively, I started to research findings from the areas of cultural and social studies - cultural influences on color symbolism - and neurobiology - how do we see and feel.