ABOUT CAM CLINE
Artist Cam Cline, a North Carolina native, lives in Chapel Hill and studied Fine Art at East Carolina University. After a corporate career as an award-winning graphic designer at GlaxoSmithKline, she now focuses on paintings and commissioned portraits.
International artist and art critic Louis St. Lewis of Raleigh’s “Metro” Magazine said of Cam’s ink portraits: “Her deft hand is responsible for some of the most imaginative portraits in the area. Cam’s training is evident, especially in her sophisticated ink portraits of children, which are always in great demand. She weaves pattern with an animated sense of design to produce beautiful and unique images that definitely share a kindred spirit with that of the great Gustav Klimt.”
Cam lives in Chapel Hill with her husband John. They have two children that they wish they could see more often; Sarah, who lives in Boston and Max, who lives in Brooklyn, NY.
My Inspiration
I am an artist and runner. One day my friend sent me a video she captured as she ran through a quiet forest. All you could you hear in the video were her footfalls and breath. The video illuminated the vivid colors of the fall in North Carolina. The light from the sun radiated and reflected off the stream. The clouds cast heavy shadows providing a cool brisk sensation. The deciduous trees were sprinkling the earth’s surface as their leaves swirled down from the sky. The beauty displayed in the video seemed so effortless yet magnificent at the same time.
If you’ve ever run, walked, biked or hiked down a trail, then you’ve experienced something similar. I wanted to capture the magic and movement in her video. Thus, I began to attempt to paint this snapshot on a canvas. I created a vibrant painting full of life yet utterly peaceful. That’s the moment I try to capture in all of my paintings. My paintings are intended to be compelling, provocative, original and beautiful.
I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I do painting them.
EXHIBITIONS
Opens August 2024 | Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Series and Repetition” Selected Artist, Juried Online Exhibit
May 2024 | This & That Gift Gallery, Carrboro, NC
October 2023 | Eye Candy Gallery
“The Balance Within” Southern Pines, NC Solo Show
April 2022 | Higgins & Myers
“Almost There” Chapel Hill, NC Solo Show
May 2021 | Wilkesboro Art Gallery, Wilkesboro, NC Group Show
March 2017 | Eye Candy Gallery
“Into The Trees” Southern Pines, NC Solo Show
Spring 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 | Eye Candy Gallery
“Double Takes” Four Consecutive Years Invited Participating Artist, Southern Pines, NC
February 2015 | Fine Art Carolina, Mebane, NC, Solo Show
October 2012 | Fine Art Carolina, Mebane, NC, Solo Show
August 2011 | Eye Candy Gallery, Southern Pines, NC, Solo Show
September 2010 | The Artist’s Theatre on East Main, West Jefferson, NC
Exhibitor along with several world-famous artists such as Ben Long, Mark Stephen Willingham, George Kosinski, Mary-Ann Prack, and Tonya Bottomley
July 2010 | Bleaker Street Gallery, Carrboro, NC
“Island Girls 2 – Works from Cayman Brac” Group Show with internationally acclaimed artist Jane Filer, Celine Meador, Jude Lobe and Ali Givens
April 2010 | Weaver Street Market Local Farms/Local Arts, Juried Exhibition, Hillsborough, NC
WINNER Third Place Peoples Choice Award
November 2009 | Bleaker Street Gallery, Carrboro, NC, Solo Show
October 2009 | Bleaker Street Gallery, Carrboro, NC
“Island Girls 1 – Works from Cayman Brac”Group Show with artists Jane Filer, Celine Meador, and Lynn Nash
April 2009 | Weaver Street Market Local Farms/Local Arts, Juried Exhibition, Hillsborough, NC
WINNER First Place People’s Choice Award
November 2009 | Bagwell, Holt, Smith, Jones & Crowson, Chapel Hill, NC, Solo Show
September 2008 | Bleaker Street Gallery, Carrboro, NC, Show with NC artist Jim Tignor
2007 | Market Street Books and Maps, Chapel Hill, NC, Solo Show
2006 | Bloom, Chapel Hill, NC, Solo Show