Chris Gold is a resident of York, PA who started painting later in life.  Her creative journey began in 1999 when her daughter came home from school with a pot she made in her ceramics class. They began taking some private ceramics lessons and she discovered the joy of creating something functional from a lump of clay. After 15 years of being frustrated with the occasional unfixable failures coming from her kiln she felt she needed a different medium for her creative outlet.  In addition, pottery did not allow for the degree of self expression she desired. As a child she grew up being fascinated watching her father paint with colorful, creamy oil paints, so she picked up a brush to try it for herself.   Paint is now her chosen medium because it allows her the flexibility to change a work to suit her aesthetic through to completion.   She also finds painting a better vehicle to express her appreciation of the God given feminine strength and beauty she finds in nature.  Her art education is not a formal one, but rather gained by taking workshops and classes from local professionals.  She paints in a range of genres including acrylic or mixed media abstracts as well as traditional and surrealistic landscapes. Now a retired nurse practitioner in women’s health, she has much more time to devote to the canvas and is showing her work in area galleries and online social media.  She has been accepted into juried shows through the York Art Association and is showing work at the York Jewish Community Center, Ironic coffee bar and Parliament Art.  She is a member of the York Art Association and a  juried member of the Oil Painters of America.