Christian Riese Lassen
Christian Riese Lassen is Hawaii’s premier marine artist. His paintings and sculptures are displayed in galleries across the United States and Japan, and his images grace an eclectic array of merchandise, from greeting cards to jigsaw puzzles, wristwatches to scuba gear. Meticulous and imaginative, Christian’s paintings depict an idealized vision of the natural world, and in particular the ocean he so loves.

Working in acrylics, enamels and oils, Lassen captures brilliant-hued butterfly fish, Moorish idols, somber-eyed sea turtles gliding through clean blue waters, while above, the light of late afternoon illuminates a lush green island. On other canvases, dolphins frolic below the surface of a deep-water tropical harbor, and humpback whales move majestically through their watery realm, or leap triumphantly into ours. www.lassenart.com