Christopher (Kit) Green

Christopher (Kit) was originally trained in Oils and Acrylics at Northwestern University in the early ‘60s, but ‘switched’ exclusively to Oriental Inks 10 years ago while living and studying in China and Singapore. His Master is Nai Swee Leng. Kit was directed to him by his Framer in Singapore, to become a student and develop a unique form of representational Western-Oriental style. He paints on heavy D’Arches in a usual 12” - 24” x 18” - 36” format, or alternatively on Rice paper or uses Rice-paper Collage mounted on canvas structure, from 5 feet to 9 feet. Kit also practices medicine in Beijing and in Detroit at the Detroit Medical Center. He maintains active Studios in Beijing and New Baltimore. His style is best described as Representational Art, a blend of free-expressionistic post-modernism with discernable figure-ground relationships and recognizable patterns, portraiture, and scene. Kit was the only non-Chinese Artist juried into a recent Singapore Oriental Ink Exhibition for the Painting “Singapore Eagle” and was subsequently published in a Fine Art Book. He now shows exclusively at Studio 1219.

Green 2006: Rice Paper Oriental Ink & Acrylic Collage on canvas. (Pictured above)

The artist, inspired by the inclusive and diversity-rich greater Detroit culture executed this piece of Representational Art to symbolize the absolute integration of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim iconography.

After determining the palette’ sketches were made on light-weight ‘dArches 10”x12” paper the painting was completed on canvas sized with gesso following stretching. Portions of the surface are collages of Chinese Rice paper impregnated with hemp fiber. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean inks are interspersed with acrylics, often with overlapping mediums.

The Painting was acquired by the Henry Ford Health System in October, 2006 as a $3,200 gift from a donor.