About

Celeste was born and raised in upstate New York where she began her art career living in a community of artists in the Adirondack Mountains. She spent her early years judging the subtle shifts in color between grades of the finest dark maple syrup, on her family’s off-grid maple syrup farm. This love for the play of light and color and the feeling of being at the center of a solitary forest is at the core of her work as an oil painter today.

While a largely self taught artist, Celeste studied drawing and painting at the New Mexico Art League and Watts Atelier. She holds a BA in anthropology, mountain geography and linguistics from the University of Montana, and an BSN in nursing from Montana State University. Her work is permanently installed in a large-scale mountain mural for the Missoula Children’s Museum, and three permanently installed intaglio prints remain in the University of Montana.