The ultimate goal of my work is to explore the serene peace and unbridled joy that a life lived in nature can provide.
The ultimate goal of my work is to explore the serene peace and unbridled joy that a life lived in nature can provide.
Greetings!
My name is Christina Rice, and I am the Artist and Creator behind Alpine Line Art.
I grew up in and around the mountains of Montana. As my constant companions, always in the distance, these mountains formed a strong influence over the course of my life and came to inspire my work as a whole.
The art I create celebrates the human connection with the natural world and explores our deep compulstion to explore and experience natural places through a variety of lived experiences, such as skiing, mountain biking, hiking, climbing, fishing, etc.
In the title of my business, Alpine Line Art, refers both to the fleeting lines we leave on a landscape by engaging in these activities and to the lasting lines the landscape leaves on our internal experience. It represents the connection between the individual and their environment.
The ultimate goal of my work is to explore the serene peace and unbridled joy that a life lived in nature can provide.
To inspire exploration and outdoor adventure. | To celebrate our lifelong connection with nature.
My current body of work features only black and white. I like to illustrate the harmony of seeming opposites: black and white, movement and stillness, reflection and experience, dreams and reality, the mind and the body, and individual experiences that can be universal.
I focus on lines rather than shading because even with a single line, I can carve out believable, beautiful spaces. Lines can be textural or gestural. They show movement. They also build form. By limiting myself to one color or a single line, I keep my work focused on the moment I'm building, going deeper and eliminating the distraction of color, which I feel gives any piece of art a very particular mood or feeling.
In addition to these themes, memory is an important feature of my work. Locations seem rooted in reality yet become dreamlike in appearance. That feature lends my work a unique yet universal quality. Each piece could remind my viewers of either their own very specific memory or the more universal experience of skiing, running, hiking, and more. Like the mountains that inspire my work, I hope my images inspire viewers within their own lives.
To empower, inspire, and celebrate women.
I intentionally feature many strong, adventurous women in my pieces for several reasons:
I believe if we can see it, we can be it. Women are strong, and that deserves to be seen and celebrated. In the past, women have been extremely underrepresented in outdoor disciplines. By increasing representation, I want to make all of these outdoor activities more accessible to women everywhere. My goal is to inspire women of the next generation to look beyond generic labels of beauty to value themselves for much more: their grace, intellect, power, flexibility, drive, and courage.
When I’m not creating art, I can often be found on the water with my stand up paddleboard, in the mountains skiing, hiking, and biking, or spending time with my partner and my dog, taking lots of pictures!
Thank you for reading!
