CHRISTINE NEILL, BIO
Nature has long been the subject of Christine Neill's large mixed-media paintings. She grew up in New England and after initially studying Biology
at Skidmore College, graduated with a BS in Art She found it was a natural transition from the examination of living things in a lab to visualizing those processes as imagery in paintings and prints. She dates her interest in the effects of climate conditions to early studies of biotic habitats. She earned a MFA at MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting, where she studied with Grace Hartigan.
Neill’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States, as well as France and Japan She is represented by Goya Contemporary and is included in many private and public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and The Katzen Art Center at American University Meuseum. The honors she has received include a Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship and the Mellon Arts Grant. She is Professor Emeritus from MICA’s Painting Department and lives with husband, designer Lew Fifield, in Baltimore City and the Berkshires of Western, MA. Her adult son Mather lives with his family in Columbia, MD.
Nature has long been the subject of Christine Neill's large mixed-media paintings. She grew up in New England and after initially studying Biology
at Skidmore College, graduated with a BS in Art She found it was a natural transition from the examination of living things in a lab to visualizing those processes as imagery in paintings and prints. She dates her interest in the effects of climate conditions to early studies of biotic habitats. She earned a MFA at MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting, where she studied with Grace Hartigan.
Neill’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States, as well as France and Japan She is represented by Goya Contemporary and is included in many private and public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and The Katzen Art Center at American University Meuseum. The honors she has received include a Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship and the Mellon Arts Grant. She is Professor Emeritus from MICA’s Painting Department and lives with husband, designer Lew Fifield, in Baltimore City and the Berkshires of Western, MA. Her adult son Mather lives with his family in Columbia, MD.
