I am a freelance graphic designer and production artist, primarily for web and print. With a balance of artistic design and technical skills -- Right Brain creative thinker with Left Brain linear application -- I enjoy the technical end of the design process and challenging myself with intricate complex projects. Serving as both the designer and production artist, I have the ability to take the project from concept to reality, starting with a creative vision and ending a with tangible product.

I have been working as a web designer since 1998 and have adapted to the technical advancements in web design over the years. The industry is constantly evolving, offering very exciting options for the artistic or technically challenged to easily build professional low cost, quality websites. For this reason I decided to retire my custom website design service to focus on graphic design, book layout and print production.

My first endeavour into book design was followed with four book projects: Martin the Mountie, written and 3D illustrated by Canadian artist Elizabeth Gatt, published 2014; Nancy Wiley's 3D illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published 2009, Little Red Riding Hood, published 2012, and her latest book Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper published 2014.

The most challenging job to date was for NIADA, an international artists organization, of which, I am a member. They wanted to publish a photo book documenting the 43-year history of the artist's organization. I had previously handled the design and production of NIADA ArtForm, our quarterly BW newsletter, so since I enjoy the process of page layout, decided to take on the challenge of producing my first book. Collaborating with the project director, Shelley Thornton, over one thousand photos were edited down to 630, I then did the color correction and image editing, followed by the design, layout and pre-press production. NIADA Art Dolls: Rich Traditions, New Ideas, a 432 page hard cover photo book was published in 2009.

Originally from British Columbia, Canada; Chris immigrated with her family to the US in 1971 after a two-year stay on the island of Barbados. The first semester of her Senior year at St. Petersburg High school in Florida, Chris worked on the Year book and discovered she a talent for assembling items on a page in a balanced and pleasing manner -- i.e. page layout. After graduation she went to the Tomlinson School for Commercial Art and studied graphic design and production.

Chris currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida with her husband and co-worker, Pete Meder where together they create dimensional Figurative Art and Automata for collectors worldwide. In 1997, they were accepted as artists' members of NIADA, a worldwide organization of figurative artists and are members of Florida CraftArt Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida.