Artworks created for and available exclusively through the Miller Gallery in Charleston, SC.

These 32 mixed-media paintings were completed for the Charleston Supported Art program, 2014.
Each piece is 22 x 30 inches on paper, constructed with acrylic paint, ink, colored pencil, pastel, graphite, fabric, and spray paint.
All of these paintings have been sold.

"These paintings are a continued exploration of memory, and how memories change and shape us. When recalling a person, time or event, especially if many years have passed, I have the feeling of being half awake and reflecting on a vivid dream. I wanted these works to have that dreamlike spirit. Each piece has a landscape quality to evoke the feeling of taking a hazy journey through your mind. Dreams are like memories because there is always an element of fiction, a part of the story that our mind constructed. And like many significant memories, my dreams often feel both profound and silly. I tried to convey those feelings through these paintings. Each one is unique and expresses a different memory." -Christine Bush Roman

City Gallery at Waterfront Park | June 29 - August 5, 2018

Becoming intimate with both autism and mental illness inspired me to create work that explores the differently wired brain and how that relates to one’s experience of the world. Neurodivisity, postpartum depression, anxiety, and dissociation are the themes in this body of work. There is immense pressure for everyone to fit into modern society in a very specific way. While making this work I was thinking of how this pressure affects mothers, those who are autistic, and those who experience issues such as anxiety or depression. Our world feels ever more unstable, which heightens insecurity and a sense of urgency to find our place. While this can be hard for everyone, it is especially challenging for a differently wired brain, and for the newly rewired brain of a mother.

November of 2022
For this exhibition at the Saul Alexander Gallery in Charleston, SC, the artist focuses on the themes of caretaking, family life, and parenthood. She has chosen her favorite pieces that depict different narratives of modern domestic life. Her whimsical and playful mixed media paintings incorporate subtle imagery that is dark or disquieting to highlight the contrast of extremes in caretaking. In a domestic environment, abundant joy, love, and gratitude are cut with feelings of resentment, regret, and confinement. Emphasizing the reality of modern life, the work can be chaotic and busy with elements of surrealism.

Work created and exhibited between 2010-2012. These pieces explore dreams, the subconscious, and attempt to map private mental worlds.

Exhibited at the Georgia Museum of Art
This series explores behavior and memory from a familial point of view. I was interested in how personality and morality develop, and how that transforms over a lifetime. These pieces specifically relate to memories of childhood experiences and my interpretation of how they shaped me and my family members. In each piece, I wanted to create an inviting world in which to experience emotion. Through painting, layering, destroying, and recreating, I worked through my feelings about the history of my immediate family. Guilt, confusion, anger, love, and nostalgia echo inside the hills, skies, and valleys of the environments depicted.

I have always been drawn to the possibilities and limitations of the two-dimensional surface, which invites me to vacillate between shallow and deep space within my works. Some works have areas of deep space, but I love to bring the viewer back to the flat plane of the canvas with texture, patterns, and or colors that sit right on top of the work. With collaged elements, I play with creatures and objects protruding from the surface.

These mixed media works on paper were created with varying combinations of acrylic, ink, colored pencil, collaged papers, and graphite. Walking a tightrope between silly and serious, these pieces draw connections between nature and the chaos in the human mind.