Christine O'Brien is a digital mixed media collage artist. She began her artistic career in 1997 with her own commercial graphic design business, DesignWrite Creative. As such, her use of digital tools like Photoshop and Illustrator greatly influenced her early designs.

In recent years her style has combined digital photography, scanned images and ephemera, image tranafers, acrylics, canvas and many other less "digital" materials that achieve what might be called digital mixed media.

For final pieces, digital imaging using archival ink and paper come together with collage, painting techniques and photography to craft original artwork and limited-edition or open-edition prints.

"I love using Photoshop to alter images I have taken with my digital camera or scanned from family and found photos. What I love even more is the process of combining the digital results with real world materials -- acrylic paint, stretched canvas, old book pages, fabric, wood, glass -- you name it.

The process usually starts with an image that inspires me. I scan or transfer the image to the computer, and decide whether it will be better off as a digital or mixed media design. And that's when the fun begins..."