Christine Morrison,
Art Director

After studying Art History and Fine Art for five years at Edinburgh University (founded 1564) Christine Morrison (M.A.) left the colony of Scotland, that fair and haunting land, to continue to study Art and Culture in the great U.S.A.

• "ART is a significant part of any culture. The U.S. continues to be an extraordinary player in the Arts, with diverse points of views, often controverisal. Yet the high level of talent, the wide range of style and execution reflects the freedom and diversity of this modern culture. The Art Illustration you find in STOCKS & COMMODITIES is diverse, original, and conceptual. The very talented and imaginative individuals whose work illustrates the challenging, technical concepts of trading financial markets links these articles to mainstream reality. Whether it is the metaphor of the trader confronting bulls-in-business-suits coming out of an elevator, the more realistic scene of miner's drilling, or cartoon-like traders riding a stock market building, eyeglass in hand, down Wall Street, these visuals aim to not only illustrate the concepts involved but also express the human experience of trading."
  
  
• How the magazine looks, the style of illustration, and pre-press production are major concerns for me. We are quite daring in terms of our choice and range of illustration style for a technical financial magazine, but the response from readers has been very positive. A number of readers over the years have called and wanted to either buy the original art or get a reproduction. I look for illustrators who have original style, good execution, and whose work often crosses over, in terms of its quality, to Fine Art. One of our illustrations did make it into American Illustration IX.
  
  
• When not at work in the financial trading corridors, I get away from the city by ferry to the more Thoreau-like regions on the Kitsap pennisula. There, I work on the never-ending study and theory of Art and Culture, and work on my painting and printmaking.

Contact me at cmorrison@traders.com.