Christine Sommerfelt

medium: painting

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Along Green Bay 2006 Painting	Aspens in the Meadow 2006 Painting	Cana Island 2001 Painting
Spring Columbine 2004 Painting	Pretty in Purple 2004 Painting	Hanging On 2005 Painting
Menomonee River Autumn 2006 Painting	Perennial Pleasures 2005 Painting	Roadside Splendor 2004 Painting
From the Harvest 2005 Painting

Contact information
3214 N. 105th St.
Wauwatosa, WI 53222
Email Address: csommerfelt@wi.rr.com
Web site: www.leagueofmilwaukeeartists.com/christine_sommerfelt.htm

Artist statement
I discovered watercolor at an adult evening class in the early 1980s and have since been intrigued with what happens when you mix pigment and water. My favorite subject is nature, because I never cease to be moved by the beauty of God's creation. "When I paint, I seek to share the emotion the subject initially gave me through my interpretation with watercolor, striving to capture that brief moment in time."

Biography
Christine (Chris) Sommerfelt is a graphic artist by profession. She has had solo watercolor shows at the gallery of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Brookfield in 2002 and at Friendship Village in Brown Deer during summer 2004. In September 2002, she was one of 33 Wisconsin artists featured in the Business Connection show at Alfons Gallery in Milwaukee. Sommerfelt's painting "Waiting for June" was juried into the competitive "Midwest Winter" show at the Center for Visual Arts in Wausau in 2005.

As a new member of the League of Milwaukee Artists, she has had paintings juried into 2005 shows at Gallery 110 in Plymouth, Wis., and at Mount Mary College. Sommerfelt is also a fiber artist who has received local and national recognition.

She teaches a bi-monthly watercolor workshop at the Wauwatosa Senior Center and has tutored privately. She also teaches a weeklong watercolor workshop at The Clearing in Door County, Wis., and teaches fabric painting for a Milwaukee-area quilt shop. Sommerfelt has been asked to conduct critiques for local art groups. She is a past president of the Wauwatosa Artist's Workshop and has exhibited with them at Mount Mary College, the Wauwatosa Public Library Firefly Gallery, the West Allis Public Library, the Unitarian Universalist Church, the Cedarburg Cultural Center and Alfons Gallery. She has received three merit awards at WAW gallery shows.

Her work is for sale at Lakes Gallery in North Lake, Wis., and at the Red Geranium in Baileys Harbor, Wis., during the tourist season. Her work can be found in both private and corporate collections.