“I love the storytelling part of it, people decrypting it for me,” artist Christine Chaise Greenwood said of sharing her work.

This has been a favorite part of her work since she started consciously making art in the early 1990s, after moving from France to the U.S. for love: she met her partner, the artist Peter Greenwood, while camping in Wellfleet, MA.

The artist needed training wheels back then, specifically plastic wrap. She would apply paint to that material and then dab the canvas, laying the foundation for paintings she couldn’t always identify, which is why she values viewers.

Chaise Greenwood has sharpened skills over the past three decades and has expanded her breadth: she also sculpts and blows glass. She’s recently shown at Parkville Art Gallery and is always on view at The Greenwood Glass Blowing Gallery in Riverton.

Though she’s grown as an artist, Chaise Greenwood still maintains a quirky practice: she holds an image up to the mirror. “That gives me an idea of where to go because I can really see it; the mirror sends the image to my brain and helps me do things that I would not know how to do otherwise.”

No matter what she makes or how she makes it, Chaise Greenwood still wants your feedback.

“I understand my story [through] the stories people tell me about myself and about themselves. It’s that bridge that’s so fascinating.”

There’s also an added benefit, Greenwood laughed: “I don’t need to pay a shrink!” The cover work, “CBDiva,” is a tribute to the artist’s friend, Christine Bras, a brave warrior, a sharp dresser, a lover of life and the arts.

Christine, this one’s for you.