CHRISTINE CANNON
ARTIST | DESIGNER | MAKER
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Smokey Mountain Landscape Residential Mural | Private Residence, 2025
THE CHALLENGE
The client's modern mountain home called for a statement piece that could honor its dramatic natural surroundings without disrupting the home's clean, contemporary aesthetic. The goal was to bring the sweeping landscape of the North Carolina mountains inside, not as a literal reproduction, but as something that felt part of the home.
THE APPROACH
The design draws on the tradition of Sumi-e ink wash painting, translating the layered ridgelines and atmospheric depth of the Smoky Mountains into a painterly grey wash palette. This approach allowed the mural to feel both timeless and modern, subtle enough to complement the home's interior design while commanding the wall as a work of art in its own right. Tone and texture do the heavy lifting in place of color, echoing the way mist and distance naturally soften the mountain horizon.
EXECUTION
Spanning approximately 180 square feet, the mural was painted directly on the interior wall surface, with each layer of grey wash building depth and atmosphere across the full expanse of the composition. The result is an immersive landscape that shifts with the light of the room, quiet and contemplative from a distance, rich in detail up close.
Columbus Clingstones Synovus Park Stadium, 2025
These murals were not designed by CannonArts LLC. Design and architectural plans were provided by Populous and Canopy. CannonArts LLC was contracted through Chris Johnson Murals to execute the installation to specification.
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
As part of the broader renovation of Synovus Park, home of the Columbus Clingstones, CannonArts LLC was brought on as a subcontractor through Chris Johnson Murals to install a series of large-scale murals across key areas of the stadium. Working from detailed architectural and material plans developed by the design firms Populous and Canopy, the work required precise, large-format execution across multiple distinct locations within the venue.
Each installation presented its own scale and surface challenges, from a bold circular logo centerpiece at the grandstand entry to expansive figurative and typographic panels along both concourse entrances. The scope of the project reflects the level of craft and technical skill required to faithfully realize another team's vision at stadium scale.
INSTALLATIONS
Columbus Clingstones logo | Grandstand entry wall · 8 ft diameter
Golden Park vintage signage | Third base concourse entrance · 23 ft × 12.5 ft
Golden Park baseball players | First base concourse entrance · 10.5 ft tall
Grandstand Entry Wall
Third Base Concourse Entrance
First Base Concourse Entrance
Peach Little League Mural at Weracoba Park, 2025
THE CHALLENGE
Recent renovations and restoration at Weracoba Park left the park's 52 foot concrete retaining wall and 40+ ft of sloping curb in need of a visual refresh. The clients, a committee representing Peach Little League and Midtown Inc. sought an artist-led solution that could transform the utilitarian surface into something that truly belonged to the community it served.
THE APPROACH
Christine Cannon collaborated closely with the client committee throughout the design process, developing a composition that could achieve three goals simultaneously: refresh the park's concessions space, honor the local Little League community, and reference the broader history of the sport through imagery and color. The Peach Little League logo anchors the center of the composition, surrounded by a baseball-themed pattern incorporating the colors of local teams, giving every team a stake in the finished work.
EXECUTION
The mural was painted by Christine Cannon and Jon Lumpkin on a properly primed concrete surface using exterior-grade paint. To ensure longevity in the outdoor environment, the finished work was sealed with a water-based urethane topcoat followed by a sacrificial anti-graffiti coating.
The Children's Tree House Mural, 2024
Client: Twin Cedars Youth & Family Services / The Children's Tree House
Donor : West Georgia Police Benevolent Association
THE CHALLENGE
The family intake waiting area of The Children's Tree House, a Child Advocacy Center serving child victims and their families across the Chattahoochee River Valley, needed to become something more than a waiting room. For the children and caregivers who spend time there, the space needed to feel safe, soothing, and quietly hopeful. The mural was donated by the West Georgia Police Benevolent Association with that singular purpose in mind.
THE APPROACH
Working from the client's initial concept of a treehouse with deep roots and a blue ribbon in honor of child abuse awareness, Christine developed an immersive composition that wraps the entire room. Three treehouses, representing the three Twin Cedars and Children's Tree House advocacy centers serving the region, overlook the Chattahoochee River Valley, framed by large cedar trees. A Maya Angelou excerpt anchors one end of the room; a soft rainbow closes the other. The center of the room becomes the center of the river, placing visitors gently inside the landscape rather than simply in front of it.
EXECUTION
Christine used the same indirect glazing technique she employs in her fine art, a warm underpainting followed by transparent color glazes, to achieve a luminous, jewel-like surface on drywall. Prussian blue outlines carry the ribbon's symbolic color throughout the composition cohesively. An airbrush rendered the rainbow with soft atmospheric edges, later tempered with a translucent white wash to unify its tone with the rest of the painting. The completed mural was finished with three coats of Montana mural varnish, matched to the existing matte wall surface.
COCHRAN GALLERY: AFTERGLOW PROMOTIONAL
FRINGE SALON: Live Art Activation Chalk Mural
THE CONCEPT
Fringe Salon supports local artists by paying them to create temporary chalk art for their space. I was honored when they asked me if I would design a piece for their space, but I wanted to really add value to this project for them in return. After all, they do amazing work on my hair. :P For this live art activation, I created an intricate nighttime botanical illustration in chalk, a tiny bog garden world contained within a floating teacup, set against the atmospheric backdrop of a swamp.
THE ACTIVATION
The piece was created live during business hours, becoming part of the salon experience itself. Clients and employees watched the illustration unfold in real time, transforming the act of making into an ambient event that energized the space. The entire process was simultaneously captured as a timelapse video, producing a shareable content asset that extended the activation's reach well beyond the salon floor.
THE VALUE
The resulting content generated over 5,000 combined impressions across social media platforms and the CannonArts and Fringe Salon accounts with significant engagement, giving Fringe Salon meaningful organic reach and a piece of restharable content that authentically reflected the salon's creative identity.
Live art activations like this one do double work: they create an in-person experience that elevates the atmosphere for clients in the moment, and a content asset that continues performing long after the chalk is erased.
LNL Electric LLC | Visual Identity
THE BRIEF
When two friends launched LNL Electric LLC, they asked me for a logo, but I wanted to design them an identity that could hold the full story of what they were building together: a woman-owned electrical business that was equal parts professional and personal. The challenge was finding a visual language that felt at home in the trades while making clear that this business was doing things differently.
THE DESIGN
The solution began with the owners themselves. The logo is a monogram of two intertwined L’s, drawn from the founders' shared initials, with its form directly inspired by wiring diagrams. The result is a mark that speaks fluently to the electrical trade while embedding the founders' personal connection into every application. It communicates craft, precision, and partnership all at once.To further express the business's woman-owned identity, the system was developed in three variants. Alongside the standard Red Blue of Electrical Diagrams, there is a black and white version, and most importantly a pink variant was introduced. The pink variant quickly became the preferred mark. Rather than softening the brand, the pink grounds it: it makes the identity unmistakable and sends a clear signal about who built this company and what it makes it special.
Celestial Pet Mural CannonArts Christine Cannon 2021
Celestial Pet Mural CannonArts Christine Cannon 2021
Celestial Pet Mural CannonArts Christine Cannon 2021: Concept Art
Celestial Pet Mural CannonArts Christine Cannon 2021
No Matter the Distance: Album Art & Packaging Design
PROJECT | ALBUM ARTWORK & PACKAGING DESIGN
Wait For Sunlight / The Promise Drive
Split album, Released in Japan, 2018
THE CONCEPT
This split album release called for artwork that could speak to the music's central theme: the ache and determination of reaching someone across impossible distance. The cover image, a couple separated by the vast expanse of the world, with monsters looming in the space between them, sets that tension immediately. Connection is the goal and the desire to bridge them is stronger than both.
THE ARTWORK
All illustrations were drawn by hand in ink, then layered over a grungy aged-paper texture to give the finished artwork the feeling of something found rather than made, a weathered letter in a bottle, a torn map. Like some artifact of longing. The antique quality of the surface reinforces the theme: the desire to communicate across the kind of distances that, in another era, felt truly insurmountable. The aesthetic is raw and tactile, a deliberate contrast to the clean precision of digital production.
SCOPE
Christine handled all artwork and packaging design for the release, from the cover illustration through the full physical packaging suite, produced for the album's Japan market release featuring both bands.