Saturday, June 21, 2014

Paintings By James Christensen

By Darren Hartley


James Christensen paintings create a rich and strangely familiar world rendered with exquisite skill and detail. This creation was made possible by James' application of his eye for the fantastic to people, landscapes and creatures, both real and imagined. James' aim has always begun with a desire to connect one imagination with another.

The early humorous James Christensen paintings displayed fantasy images that James thought other people will like. To his amazement, he discovered that people liked his imaginative, magical worlds as much as he did. After completing his studies, James worked as a freelance illustrator, continually working on his own painting on his free time.

James Christensen paintings are enchanting works of art, woven from dreams, hopes, fears and humor, into a fabric of everyday life. They are meant to excite the imagination and invite the viewer to become an active participant in the creative process instead of just being a bystander.

In the fantastic world of James Christensen paintings, False Magic is an inclusion. In this painting, fishes are portrayed as symbols of magic and wisdom. Their floating appearance in the air reminds people that everything is a possibility. Anything or anybody touched or surrounded by the fishes are considered truly blessed.

Your Place or Mine, one among the many James Christensen paintings, picture a fellow who has been fishing for a good line for quite a long time. He has finally found one and is determined to make use of it. He is definitely not an average medieval of the road lover.

One of the James Christensen paintings comes with a free booklet explaining all of 72 superstitions. Entitled Superstitions, it divulges that life is a precarious business, so much so that ancient forebears became keen to stack the cosmic deck. What hurt can wishing upon a falling star, bewaring of the black cat or picking up a lucky penny bring?




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