Moonlight 3
Blue to Gold
Struggle
Christa Nye
Artist Statement
Christa Nye’s work explores the space between memory, emotion, and abstraction. While her early paintings were rooted in observation, her practice has shifted toward an inward focus, allowing intuition to guide the process. She paints without direct reference, responding instead to music as it unfolds, letting sound influence color, rhythm, and form, shaping each composition as an emotional experience rather than a depiction of the physical world. Through this approach, she seeks to give structure to intangible moments—fragments of thought, memory, and feeling—and to create paintings that reflect a deeper, more personal understanding of reality.