CHRISTA MALAY

Pacific Northwest artist Christa Malay has been a professional artist since graduating from a three year art program at Spokane Community College in 1981. Since then she has worked at numerous artistic endeavors including graphic design, illustrations, advertising, t-shirt designs, cartoons, portraits and has taught watercolor classes. After moving to Washington State's San Juan islands in 1987, Christa began to create and print limited edition serigraphs, producing more than 130 editions to date. "To be an artistic entrepreneur you have to posses an adventurous spirit, persistence, the willingness to work hard and a sense of humor.  (cont. at bottom of page)

Since 1993 Christa has added painting with oil pastels to her repertoire. her large colorful landscapes of the islands are popular and have resulted in many commissions and gallery shows. In 1998 Christa was introduced to etching on zinc plates and she has now produced a series of landscape images based on her pastel paintings. She has received numerous commissions to design and print posters for resorts, festivals and special interest groups. Her unique style of oil pastel paintings and etchings is known throughout the Northwest.

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