New oil paintings will be up at the ArtBox Gallery in Crozet for the month of April entitled, the delight is the surprise. Opening reception is 4-6pm during Second Saturdays, April 14th.

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday:  11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Dear friend,
dear trembling partner, what
surprises you most in what you feel,
earth's radiance or your own delight?
For me, always
the delight is the surprise.

-       from Matins, a poem by Louise Glück

Christen's paintings explore our relationship with the surrounding landscape using loose and suggestive strokes that imply an immediacy of encounter within which she wants the viewer to linger. Her current show records her attention to and delight of the land and animals in and around White Hall. Christen lives and works by the mountains on Sugar Hollow Road with her husband, four kids and flock of hens.