Christine Dennett

Christine Dennett was born in Utah with ancestry of mixed heritage from her father, James Ramos, Spanish, Phillipines, and mother Carolyn Ramos European, Cherokee nation, and the turbulent changes within her lifetime of the 1960s and 70s presented a pallet of emotional challenges she expressed through her art. She is registered with the Cherokee nation making her an official American Indian In the 1999. Christine's art education and career started in 1972. During this time she was given the name, "Kesara", meaning beautiful flower, by a Vietnamese Monk, Thien Thic An, whom ordained her into Buddhism. Today this name represents her art. When she graduated high school she attended Cal State University receiving her primary art education. She married Mark Dennett in a little Buddhist temple in Hollywood January 1980 and is still happily married birthing two children, Mudita and James. She is now a grandparent to Mason James G. In 1982 Christine started contracting work out as an illustrator for authors and documentary films amassing over 300 original illustrations. Her art career expands outward to include conceptual art creations for product, set and costume design.