Maine Artists, Chris and Jen Cart, Join SilverChicks.com

The art work of Chris and Jen Cart, artists from Maine, is being featured on SilverChicks.com

Fairfax, VA (PRWEB) October 23, 2006 -- SilverChicks.com, a small web based business, announces the addition of fine art giclees and prints, by artists Chris Cart and Jen Cart, to their website. The addition of art work by Chris and Jen cart will complement that of the artists already found on SilverChicks.com, jewelry by Aziza, Silver Tukul Designs, and Black Beard Silver, and pen and ink inspired t-shirts by SedaInk.

Chris Cart (American, b. 1960) began selling paintings and sculptures in Seattle after studying at the University of Washington. In 1986 one of his paintings caught the eye of author Jeff Smith, also known as the Frugal Gourmet. Jeff Smith asked Chris Cart to illustrate his next book, and that lead to Chris illustrating six of the bestselling Frugal Gourmet Cookbooks as well as illustrating hundreds of other publications.

Most recently, Chris Cart has been creating book covers for many classics of American literature, including Kenneth Roberts “Northwest Passage” and “Lydia Bailey”. Chris Cart is currently working on illustrating Melville's “Moby Dick”.

In recent years Chris Cart started painting portraits and received the official commission for the portrait of Maine Chief Justice Daniel Wathen which was unveiled in the Superior Court in Maine’s State Capital, Augusta, in the spring of 2001.

A watercolor by Chris Cart, “Sunday Walk” was featured in “The Art of Maine in Winter,” by art critic Carl Little and Arnold Skolnik, a book featuring many of Maine’s top artists both old and contemporary.

Chris Cart is currently exploring how to combine elements of the exotic and more traditional into my work drawing from his experiences traveling and living abroad. He is currently working on a series of paintings incorporating masks he saw while living in Mexico, where he was influenced by the work of artists, Jose Clemente Orozco and Siquieros.

Jen Cart (American, b. 1961) married the artist Chris Cart in 1988. With the encouragement of her artist husband Jen began painting ten years ago, sharing her enthusiasm, energy, and creativity with others through paint. One fan has described her emergent talent as spontaneous combustion. Rich colors and believable whimsy flatter the canvas she works on.

She has since become a full time artist, selling at several galleries and recently illustrated her first children's book, “Pea Soup Fog”, written by Constance Smith, published by Down East Books.

Chris and Jen Cart reside in Hallowell, Maine with their two children.

SilverChicks.com anticipates great things while representing the Cart’s and their work. For more information about SilverChicks.com or the Cart’s, please visit their website at http://www.silverchicks.com.

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