Meet Hawaii Artist Christie Marie Elder
Meet Kauai Island Artist Christie Marie Elder
One thing you will find consistently in Christie’s art is her love of the element of water~ in all it's forms! Snow, Clouds, Lakes, Waterfalls and Oceans, etc all are a major subject in Christie's art. Her inspiration comes from the way energy flows through water - we feel better when we are around water, the colors it beholds are soul healing and how it relects and plays with light is Heavenly! From Rainbows to snowflakes to our own bodies~ water creates miracles!
Christie's mediums include large murals, oil painting, watercolor, tattooing, airbrushed polyurethane on metal and graphic design. As a child she was influenced by her artist Grandmother who painted in Oils, Watercolor and charcoal~and at age eleven Christie did her first solo mural for her elementary school.
But… Christie’s life went in a different direction than her art dream at age sixteen as she had the opportunity to turn pro and go on world tour as a professional snowboarder! With her adventurous heart she jumped at the opportunity and worked hard to graduate a year early from high school with college credits and got to business getting sponsors to work with and was jet set on her eleven year (1989-2000) career as a professional athlete traveling to contests, doing photo and film shoots for magazines and movies and teaching and training in the summer on the glacier in Mt. Hood, Oregon. She competed in freestyle events of Halfpipe, Slopestyle, Big Air and Boardercross in the X-Games, Vans Triple Crowns, Dew Tours, Burton U.S. Open, World Championships, Nippon Open to just name a few.
Christie continued to develope her arts during her snowboard career constantly sketching inspirations in her travel journals and painting when she could, doing graphics for two of her own signature model snowboards and tattooing in tattoo studios in her off seasons from snowboarding.
After retiring from snowboarding Christie focused most of her energy on her family and two boys. She took opportunities to paint and donated murals to her church and her boys elementary school. Once her boys were older she started painting more and joined the Tahoe Art League participating in seasonal art shows in and around Lake Tahoe and was the President of the Art League in 2012.
Christie moved in 2024 to the garden island of Kauai, Hawaii and opened her first art gallery in July 2025 You can find her five days a week sharing her works in her gallery at the Anchor Cove Malll in Kalapaki Bay, Lihue and on her online gallery and social media sharing her art and adventures.
Kauai Christie's Art 3366 Waapa Rd. Suite 506 Lihue, HI 96766
Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm
Closed - Sundays & Mondays
For private showings at Kauai Christie's Art Gallery please call or text her at (808)346-1166
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Links to interviews for Christie Marie:
Tahoe Quarterly : Early Inspirationsin Arts, Winter 2015-2016 http://tahoequarterly.com/arts/early-inspirations
