Christine Nicoll Parson

Mary, Mary, Had a Little Baby - Madonna and Child is my salute to the mother and child. This work also references both the life of Mary - Annunciation, the Birth of Jesus, the Flight into Egypt, the Assumption of the Virgin - and the artists who have come before me.

Hymn 112 in the Hymnal 1982, In the Bleak Midwinter proclaims,

Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
but his mother only, in her maiden bliss,
worshiped the beloved with a kiss.

Born and raised in the Washington, DC area, Christine only wanted to be one thing—a painter. Building on years spent haunting the National Gallery, Christine studied at the Corcoran School of Art, Camegie-Mellon University and with various artists. She is the recipient of two grants from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities. She taught art for twenty-five years to both children and adults. She was artist-in-residence in 1997 at Wesley Theological Seminary. Her work is in private and corporate collections world wide. Her work may be seen in her studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. She shows regularly at the Firehouse Gallery in Bordentown, New Jersey. Christine has had numerous one artist shows as well as showing her work in local and national venues. She is the illustrator for From Genesis to Revelation. a rosary, written by Christine Haapala. Christine is a member of the National Association of Women Artists.

Christine Nicoll Parson
Email: magoose746@earthlink.net

Parish: St. Monica's Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington