Christopher Green was born in England. A major influence on his life was the time he spent as a novice in a Cistercian monastery. He took up serious painting after moving to Santa Monica in 1993, and studies with Barbara Ashton at Brentwood Art Center. Watercolor is his preferred medium.

"In my paintings I try to create something accessible and beautiful, that lifts the spirit," he says. Working on small or large scale, he becomes easily absorbed in what is for him an exercise in meditation. Places reflected in his paintings are: the English countryside, especially the Lake District, (the landscape and unpredictable weather have inspired some of his best work), Hawaii, and cathedrals and abbeys in two series of paintings: "The Holy Places of England".

He has painted a series of commissioned paintings for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles and his work is also featured on book covers and several compact discs.

He has received other commissions here and in England as well as in Portland, Oregon, where his work was shown at Onda Studio and Gallery. Today Christopher's paintings hang on walls across the world from the USA and as far as Germany, Australia and Singapore.