About the Art

Chrissy Rogers was born in Long Beach, California.  Her earliest creative influence was watching her grandfather 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 all things arts and crafts but especially drawing horses. Her mother nurtured those early loves with art supplies and horses, her first real horse being a shaggy gray pony named Judy.  Since then, much of her life has been spent in the company of horses.  She now enjoys sharing this love of horses with her husband and has for over three decades.

 Creativity has taken various forms throughout her life such as clothing design, jewelry crafting, and photography. She returned to 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 focused on her horses; breeding, raising, and showing American Quarter Horses in the discipline of the Reined Cow Horse.

 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.  Originally self-taught, she now enjoys regular painting instruction with an invaluable mentor.  She finds exploration of her mediums of choice and pushing the boundaries of her understanding of them to be both liberating and satisfying.