Biograpny and Artist’s Statement - Chris C. Nolan

From as early as I can remember, I’ve had an intense interest in the visual arts. My Aunt June was an amateur oil painter and summers were spent near Cape Cod where I watched her paint seascapes. I thought of the creation of a painting as something magical-and still do.

Many years later I graduated with a degree in elementary education, but I never lost my enthusiasm for the visual arts. While teaching I found it very difficult to make time to paint. Soon I was enjoying taking reference photos as much as the painting. So started my obsession with photography.

I left teaching to pursue photography - landscape, close-up, floral, abstract and more recently, black and white through the magic of digital processing. What I most enjoy about photography is “seeing” something in a scene, sharing that vision with others and hearing, “Gosh, I was there, but I never noticed that!” I love making the everyday and ordinary become extraordinary.

I’ve also started designing digital art pieces from the photography, creating new visions of scenes and bringing me full circle back to fine art.