About Me


Hello and welcome to my web site! My name is Christine Brallier and I have been creating art since childhood and haven’t stopped! I grew up in Los Angeles studying art and music through high school. Then after years as a preschool teacher, received my M.A. in psychology, with a focus on children. In 2005, I fell in love with the art of mosaics and started my business, Christine Brallier Mosaics. Currently I spend my time drawing, painting and gel printing. My art has been published in many books and magazines and my mosaics have been installed in public spaces in California, Texas, Michigan, Kentucky, and Australia Zoo. My children’s book, The Night Before Christmas, was illustrated with stained glass mosaics and was published in 2013. More recently I illustrated two books by Elizabeth Stewart, Ph.D.: No Thanks Mom and My Darlin' Quarantine.

Thank you for visiting my site - I hope you enjoy my artwork!


More about me:

 

Cat Lady Confidential - January 2017

Writing and Illustrating - January 2015

Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - December 2014

Santa Barbara News-Press - December 2013

 

Professional Affiliations

 

     Goleta Valley Art Association

Santa Barbara Printmakers

Society of American Mosaic Artists

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Artists Guild of Santa Ynez Valley

 

Publications

    

      My Darlin' Quarantine, Elizabeth Stewart, Ph.D., Flandricka House Press, 2020

       No Thanks Mom, Elizabeth Stewart, Ph.D., Flandricka House Press, 2017

Glass Patterns Quarterly Magazine, "It's Cold Out!" Mosaic pattern and tutorial, 2016

Mosaico na Rede Magazine, Brazil, 2015

Guide to Mosaic Techniques, Bonnie Fitzgerald, Trafalgar Square, London, 2015

The Night Before Christmas, Clement C. Moore & Christine Brallier, Brownian Bee Press, 2013

Mosaic Fine Art Portraits, Irit Levy & Pam Givens, Mosaic Fine Art Books, 2010

Mosaico na Rede Magazine, Brazil, 2010

Breakout! Your Pathway to Success, Brit Hammer-Dijcks, 2010

Mosaic Renaissance, Laurel Skye, North Light Books, 2009

The Mosaic Artist’s Bible of Techniques, Teresa Mills, Quarto Publishing, 2009

 

Awards

 

3rd Place for Divine Bovine, 2018

People’s Choice Award for Beautiful Anyway, 2010

Juror's Choice Award for Fiesta, 2008        

William T. Colville Foundation Grant, 2007

 

Education

 

2009-2016 Society of American Mosaic Artists annual conference

2014 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators annual conference

2003 Licensed Massage Therapist, Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute

1996 M.A. Psychology, Antioch University

 


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