I've been doing art for a living since 1972. I took a brief hiatus from 1994 to 2001 to dip into the business world but that was long enough. In my career I've written and drawn a nationally syndicated comic strip, designed and built special effects for George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, illustrated children's books, owned my own maritime art gallery, done action sailing photograpy on San Francisco Bay and all the time, I was painting. I've generally had a wonderfully fulfilling life as an artist. Now I'm focusing on using all I've learned to try to capture and hold on to the beauty that I find all around.

I don't have a deep philosophy that inspires my art. I'm not trying to change the world with it. I've simply discovered that the more I look at the world with the eyes of an artist, the more beautiful it is. I hope to be able to do it justice..

Enjoy,

Cris Hammond