Christel Ibsen, Danish by birth, resides in New York City, Normandy, France and Grand Cayman. She travels between her shows and three studios with frequent forays to all corners of the globe painting the changing seasons.Fifteen years ago, she suddenly lost her hearing. From leading a productive, exciting but frazzled life-shutting between Paris, New York and London- within a few years she had become 95% deaf."And that is when I started to paint... With the silence of deafness came peace and the blissful ability to concentrate on the senses still left. When painting, my time is transformed into an endless space of color and hues, and it seems as if I enfold a part of nature into myself". Since then, because of a cochlear implant, Christel has miraculously regained the ability to hear and o communicate through sound. "But painting remains my release, my pleasure... a vocation that found me".