"To me the mermaids show the two sides of the human condition. There is the side of us that the world sees, and then there is the side that is more truly us. The side that we keep hidden, for we know not if anyone will understand is what people are so quick to judge, and fear in this day and age, so we keep it beneath the surface."

Biography:

Christopher has been making art since he was a child, and took advanced placement art in high school, while hanging out (and getting tips) with such comic book pros as X-Men's Paul Smith. After high school, he went on to design concepts for two aborted TV projects, and also worked as a computer insert artist for such TV shows as Nowhere Man, and movies like Safe-house.

Christopher's gallery work is best described as mixed media. In terms of how the artwork is created, mixed media means whatever is appropriate for the particular piece. Some of his work is as simple as watercolor mixed with coffee, with a little charcoal rubbed in, and finished with a polyurethane coat or resin. Others may have such items incorporated into them as spray paint, oil paint, ink, pressed flowers, dried insects, feathers, bones, lace, fishnet, snake skin, gold leaf, and burnt paper.

Source: fine art america