About the Art

Chrissy Rogers was born in Long Beach, California.  Her earliest creative influence was her grandfather whom she loved watching make things in his little shop.  He was a multi-faceted artist, but she especially loved when he was mosaicist, creating beauty with colorful tesserae of tile and broken objects.

As a child she loved arts and crafts and horses. Her mother nurtured those early loves with art supplies and horses, her first real horse being a shaggy gray pony named Judy.  She enjoyed drawing horses and had a little book that instructed her how to draw the horse beginning with shapes. 

She spent the summers traveling with her retired grandparents camping across the US and Canada.  It was a new adventure every summer.  From California across the US to Newfoundland or up to Alaska.  That is where her interest in the landscape began.

After high school she went to live in West Germany.  From there she explored, visiting coastal villages of Holland, traveling along the scenic Rhine, skiing the awe-inspiring Tyrolian Alps of Austria, and walking along the stone walls of ancient castles.

After returning home from her time in Europe her love of animals led her to enroll in a college program for Animal Health Technology.  Upon completion she received a certificate of merit and a diploma.  Her favorite part of the program was learning about animal anatomy.

Throughout her life creativity has taken various forms such as clothing design, jewelry crafting, and photography. She attended college focusing on art history but ultimately let go of that pursuit to prioritize raising her children.  She and her husband chose to home-school their children and did so through High School. 

When her children left for college, she and her husband focused on their horses; breeding, raising, and showing American Quarter Horses and helping with their family’s cattle operation. 

When her mare endured a career ending injury it jolted her heart.  That crippling event seemed to catapult her and her husband into more than a year of heartbreak with one loss after another, completely changing the trajectory of their equine endeavors. 

During a visit with her adult youngest son, she saw that he had been painting and was inspired.  Upon returning home she began to teach herself how to paint with acrylics.  She was hooked!  Horses were her subject of choice from the beginning.  Working to develop a regular art practice she didn’t realize how painting was changing her, healing her. 

Eventually she found instruction with an invaluable mentor.  She pushes herself exploring her mediums of choice and expanding the boundaries of her understanding of them.  She continues to search out and take advantage of opportunities that feed her creativity and drive her art forward.