About / CV / Statement / Press

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Christine Sullivan was raised in Fayetteville, New York, a small village suburb of Syracuse. These outskirts wove through a number of fields, streams, and dairy farms where she and her friends would spend entire days using their imagination in nature’s playground. This time spent close to the earth had a profound impact, as did her parent's love of books and her family history of painters, leading her to pursue both art and geography in college. Christine collected rocks, maps, books on writing and poetry, was a downhill skiier, and began writing, drawing and watercolor painting with effort.

Sullivan’s early career was in cartography, first on Cape Cod and later back in Syracuse, where she hand lettered road and topographic maps and oversaw the graphic elements of pre-press printing. While in Syracuse, Christine transitioned from maps to advertising and promotion in the cable communications industry designing national advertising campaigns for Syracuse-based Newhouse Communications. 

In 1994, soon after her marriage to husband, Jim and the birth of their daughter, Maddie, Christine was recruited to help launch and build the first niche and privately owned 24/7 sports cable network, Arnold Palmer's Golf Channel and she and her young family moved to Orlando, Florida. Here Sullivan rose through the ranks as a senior marketing executive overseeing the brand and all aspects of program and marketing development. After fourteen years of non-stop efforts, Christine was able to fulfill her goal of leaving the corporate world to pursue her art and writing full time. 

She returned to writing daily and took several art workshops in Florida and in Provincetown, Cape Cod while caring for her elderly parents. Christine quickly fell in love with oil painting and soon was working in the studio full-time. A number of residencies, museum shows, and gallery representation soon followed.

In 2020, during the pandemic, Sullivan joined Michael David’s New York City based Yellow Chair Salon, a virtual environment with participants from across the globe sharing their art for critique by and discussions with Michael and several reknown guest artists. Christine delved into new areas of expresson with her painting, and rediscovered her passion for writing through instruction from author/artist Paul D’Agostino.  

In addition to working on a number of art books, Sullivan has exhibited her paintings in group and solo shows in Provincetown, MA, Wellfleet, MA, St. Augustine, FL, Indianapolis, IN, Rochester, NY and Saugatuck, Michigan. Her works are in private collections across the United States as well as internationally. 

Christine and her husband currently reside in Jamestown, North Carolina, just a few miles from their daughter and son-in-law. Most of Sullivan's days are spent observing, writing about and sketching the birds and trees stirring outside her broad second-floor studio window. 

Christine is currently represented by; 

Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA;

J Petter Gallery, Saugatuck and Douglas, MI; 

Plum Contemporary, St. Augustine, FL