16" X 20" Watercolor on watercolor canvas

This watercolor piece is a complex exploration in primary color and line. Occhino deconstructs the ordinary visual experience of a wooden bridge over water and plays with the crisscrossing lines of bridge architecture, supported by a lively primary color palette. The network of sketch-like lines and shapes almost becomes abstract, and the figure of a bridge is made apparent to the viewer by its broken reflection in the “water” below.

Kris Occhino holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Studio Art from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY and a Masters in Art Education from Rhode Island School of Design.

Kris is a much sought after instructor.  She teaches painting in her Treetop studio in Attleboro, MA and at the Rhode Island Watercolor Society where she is an Artist Member.  She has done painting demonstrations for many art groups.

Ms. Occhino’s award winning work has been selected by jurors for regional and national shows and has been exhibited in museums, art associations, galleries, and art festivals in New England.  She has paintings in the collection of Assumption College and in many private collections in the US and abroad.

Kris is a member of the Canton Art Association, Foxboro Art Association, Franklin Art Association, Blackstone Valley Plein Air Artists Association, New England Watercolor Society, Attleboro Arts Museum, RISD Museum of Art, Fuller Craft Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society.