Chris Ford Art

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About the Art

To do the work of a serious artist I have had to look inward and be decisive about my goals. I came to this work with a hierarchy of values for living, and I realized that painting requires me to bring these same values to bear: honesty, beauty and perseverance.

Compliance with the opinions of others does not give me what I'm aiming for. Mere defiance is no better. While I must respect the ideals and expression of others, my highest aim is the inner independence to express something wholly my own.

About Chris

Chris Ford was born in New York City, where she resides, and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She was an undergraduate at Duke University and a graduate student at the Universität München in Germany. She studied painting and drawing at the San Diego Art Institute and with well-known artists such as Daniel Greene, Burt Silverman, Nita Engle, Robert Wade, David Leffel, Jacob Collins and Millard Sheetz. Her work has been in galleries in Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and California.