Christina Weese is an artist, designer and photographer who lives near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. A life-long affinity for horses and horseback riding led to many magical adventures exploring fields and coulees out on the land around her home and her grandparents’ farm. Much of her work deals with landscape, movement on the land, and family memory. Many years later, she had the privilege of being part of a video crew that documented personal stories told by residential school survivors. This experience deeply impacted and forever changed her understanding of Saskatchewan’s land history.
Christina holds a Visual Communication diploma from Medicine Hat College, and a Bachelor of Design degree from the University of Alberta. As part of her BDes program, she attended a typography class taught by Canadian Robert Bringhurst, author of The Elements of Typographic Style. She also spent a summer working for the University’s art archives, and was especially fond of the Japanese print collection. Christina spent twenty-five years as a graphic designer and part-time professional photographer. She still shoots often for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, and uses landscape photography to inform and enrich her landscape painting practice.
Artistic mediums and interests include watercolour, egg tempera, collage, printmaking (woodblock and Japanese mokuhanga), book design, wood carving, and the intersection and overlap of digital and traditional ways of working.
She lives and works on Treaty 6 territory, traditional homeland of the Cree, Dakota, Nakota, and Saulteaux, and home of the Métis Nation.