Though born and raised in southern California, C. M. (Christina) Cooper's early European travels and the opportunity to live in Paris for a period proved to be the inspiration for her artistic pursuits.  She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1980 and after pursuing a career in advertising as a fashion artist, doing free-lance illustration for several publications, spending six years teaching and operating a small private art school, Cooper decided to dedicate all of her energies to her own painting career.  She has been accepted into a number of prestigious juried exhibitions and organizations and has received numerous awards and honors.  Herpainting, "Blue Solace," was featured in Southwest Art Magazine, July 2002, "California: Best of the West," announcing the California Art Club's Gold Medal Exhibition at the Pasadena Historical Museum.  In the November 2002 issue of Southwest Art, Cooper was featured in the monthly "Artists to Watch" article and in the October 2003 issue, she was one of three artists featured in the monthly "Collector's Choice" article.

About her work Cooper states: "I really aspire to capture my emotional response when I see the beauty of a moment in time, the color harmonies, the movement, the rich grays, the textures.  As artists, that is our job, to help others see with a different kind of vision....  I could paint the human figure and nothing else the rest of my life.  I am obsessed with capturing the innermost quality of my subject---the humanness...." 

On Top The World 11x14 $1475