_PNG.png){kind=small}
Christine Buth Furness
USA
_p.png)
“My paintings and drawings are abstracted landscapes of places experienced, spaces navigated, and those imagined.”
Christine Buth Furness paints images that suggest a human presence in an environment or an absence of one and evoke an emotional response. Like a visual poem, they are expressions of her creative and critical thinking.
April Pink Moon Guide My Way | Watercolor
$1,150
22 X 30
The full moon in the month of April is called the pink moon. On a walk one clear evening I stood at a high point and captured the moon in all its glory here in this painting.
In her painting process, she layers water-based paints, one transparent layer on top of another on archival paper, and this technique strengthens the intensity of the colors, defines the forms, and allows light as a subject to give meaning.
Golden Gate and Blue Surround | Watercolor
$1,150
30 X 22
While walking though Golden Gate Park, I turned and saw this magnificent tree framed by the cerulean blue sky.
Photography assists in the study of nature and it becomes an inspiration for the paintings and drawings. Even though many photographs are taken on her walks and travels, she never works directly from a photograph when she paints.
“The study of nature is important to me as an artist.”
She has an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally throughout her career in over 300 solo, juried, and group invitational shows in museums, art centers, commercial galleries, and alternative spaces. The work is in numerous public and private collections.
Waterfall at Base of Grotto | Transparent Watercolor
$1,200
28 X 22
"Waterfall at Base of Grotto" is the first painting in the grotto series, which is inspired by my hike on southwestern Wisconsin's Wildcat Mountain Ice Cave Trail. In this painting, cadmium yellowed trees perch above an iron-rich waterfall cascading into a deep shadowed grotto-like space. My goal is always to convey a sense of place in my imagery.
A stop on a drive through a cold, winter mountainous landscape, led to the inspiration for this image.
Cool Blue Mountain Lake and Snow | Watercolor
$1,150
22 X 30
She divides her time between two studios. The main studio is in southeastern Wisconsin near the shores of Lake Michigan, which is a land of great freshwater wealth and glorious tumultuous skies.
“There are many sketchbooks filled with drawings in my collection as well as thousands of digital photos to inspire my creation of larger paintings.”
“The sky and the horizon line, water movements and paths that lead the viewer into the image have been a focus for me in the last 5 years.”
The other studio, inhabited during the winter months, is in northern California next to an oak forest at the base of Hood Mountain in the Valley of the Moon. This part of California is a land of great majestic beauty, but suffering from drought and the consequences of wildfire.
Graced By the Sky’s Heaviness | Pastel and colored Pencil on Archival Paper
$1,200
22 X 30
I love painting and drawing the sky. This pastel drawing with colored pencil details is about the volatility of the sky and the weather bringing much needed rain to the landscape at dusk.
For many years she has organized her paintings into series with titles such as “Empty Spaces,” “Trees and Light, “Sky in a Box”, and “Building a Forest One Tree at a Time”. Several paintings from all these series are featured here.
Storm Passing East | Transparent Watercolor on Archival Paper
$1,200
22 X 30
Received the Bronze Award in the international exhibition "Artist Invitational 12" at Camelback Gallery.
In this transparent watercolor I lead the viewer from an interior space through a passageway to the shoreline of a lake. The dark and ominous skies are moving east and clear skies will follow. The journey is now safe.
“Hood Mountain Dusted in Orange” is a watercolor celebrating the golden light from the setting sun on the face of Hood Mountain in the Valley of the Moon in northern California.
Selected for the national invitational exhibition "Watercolor Now 2026" at the Anderson Arts Center in Kenosha, WI (April 5 to May 24, 2026).
Close to sunset, Hood Mountain appears awash in golden orange tinted light. Blue sky hovers above.
Hood Mountain Dusted in Orange | Watercolor
$1,150
22 X 30
“My work is a result of the observation of these two separate, parallel landscapes. It celebrates peace and stillness.”
Red Gaze West Beneath the Blue Grey Sky | Watercolor
$1,200
30 X 22
Inspired by a walk at dusk in Northern California. It is a thematic piece designed to lead the viewer forward along a path into the light.
Her pastel painting, ‘Uphill East’ is pastel and colored pencil on paper, and leads the viewer into the light at the top of her favorite Wisconsin hillside. The place holds wonderful memories for her, thus making both the painting and the location very special for her.
The viewer is led up the hill into the light of an autumn Wisconsin landscape.
Uphill East | Pastel
$1,150
30 X 22
“Taliesin Interior Perspective” a pastel and colored pencil on paper, gives the viewer a peek at the mystery of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and its many well-designed interior spaces at his Wisconsin home offering a look into the out of doors.
Taliesin Interior Perspective |Colorpencil
$1,150
30 X 22
This piece gives the viewer a peek at the mystery of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin Taliesin and its many well designed interior spaces offering a look into the out of doors.
"An important activity for me is drawing from a model every week, and I do this to improve my drawing and painting skills and strengthen the ability to observe and record elements from the natural world."
Not a solo artist yet? Subscribe to our solo exhibitions at TERAVARNA and share your art with the world!