Chris Karpinski has studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Lyme Academy
of Fine Arts. Her love of hiking in the mountains and along the shore of Connecticut
has provided inspiration for her landscape painting.

" The landscape is a sensual feast. Painting outdoors helps me to explore this experience, and record it for my own and others enjoyment. If the light, color and atmosphere of my
paintings stimulates the viewer's memory of a time and place.....a peaceful retreat,
then I've accomplished all I hoped for. After fifty years of painting,
I'm still just like a kid with crayons".

Her work has been exhibited at Sylvan Gallery, The Cooley Gallery, Lyme Art Association, Slater Museum and the Essex Art Association. In March of 2001 she exhibited paintings
from Ireland after a stay on the Beara Peninsula. That led to a residency at the
Cill Rialaig Project, which has been the subject of her recent Irish work.
In 2003 she was accepted in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
and the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery in London.

A resident of Waterford Connecticut, Chris is a registered psychiatric nurse working in the substance abuse field.  Her night work schedule allows ample daylight hours for her outdoor painting.  The pleasure and peace she derives from painting and her accomplishments as a harpist is a resource to draw upon for nursing.