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JAMES
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Inspired
by the world’s myths, fables and tales of imagination, James
C. Christensen wants his |
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work
to add up to more than a beautiful—if sometimes ‘curious’
looking work of art. Having |
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taught
art professionally for over 20 years, he likes to think of the world
as his classroom. His |
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hope
is that through whatever he creates—be it a porcelain, fine
art print or book—he can |
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convey
a message, inspiration or a simple laugh. He believes that teaching
people to use their |
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imagination
helps us find solutions to sooth the stresses of everyday life—or
get a little lift to help |
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us
keep going. In short: all things are possible when you share Christensen’s
philosophy that |
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“Believing
is Seeing.” |
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Christensen
was born in 1942 and raised in Culver City, California. He studied
painting at |
| Brigham Young University
and, for a while, the University of California at Los Angeles before
finishing his formal education |
| at BYU. Since then, he has had one-man shows
in the West and the Northeast, and his work is prized in collections |
| throughout the U.S. and Europe. The artist
has been commissioned by both Time/Life Books and Omni to create |
| illustrations for their publications and his
work has appeared in the prestigious American Illustration Annual
and Japan’s |
| Outstanding American Illustrators.
Christensen has also won all the professional art honors the World
Science Fiction |
| Convention can bestow, as well as multiple
Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Artists. |
| Christensen’s fine art now appears as
works of art in porcelain from The Greenwich Workshop® Collection,
artist- |
inspired products such as note
cards, silk ties and books.The first, A Journey of the Imagination:
The Art of James |
| Christensen, was published to great acclaim
in 1994.His second, the adventure fantasy Voyage of the Basset,
has more |
| than 75,000 copies in print. His third,
the inventive Rhymes & Reasons, was published in May, 1997. |
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