About Cam Cline

Artist Cam Cline, a North Carolina native, lives in Chapel Hill and studied Fine Art at East Carolina University. After a corporate career as an award-winning graphic designer at GlaxoSmithKline, she now focuses on paintings and commissioned portraits. 

International artist and art critic Louis St. Lewis of Raleigh’s “Metro” Magazine said of Cam’s ink portraits: “Her deft hand is responsible for some of the most imaginative portraits in the area. Cam’s training is evident, especially in her sophisticated ink portraits of children, which are always in great demand. She weaves pattern with an animated sense of design to produce beautiful and unique images that definitely share a kindred spirit with that of the great Gustav Klimt.”

Cam lives in Chapel Hill with her husband John. They have two young adult children that they wish they could see more often; Sarah, a graduate of Northeastern University who lives and works in Boston and Max, a graduate of UNC Asheville who lives in Hollywood, CA.

My Inspiration

I am an artist and runner. One day my friend sent me a video she captured as she ran through a quiet forest. All you could you hear in the video were her footfalls and breath. The video illuminated the vivid colors of the fall in North Carolina. The light from the sun radiated and reflected off the stream. The clouds cast heavy shadows providing a cool brisk sensation. The deciduous trees were sprinkling the earth’s surface as their leaves swirled down from the sky. The beauty displayed in the video seemed so effortless yet magnificent at the same time.

If you’ve ever run, walked, biked or hiked down a trail, then you’ve experienced something similar. I wanted to capture the magic and movement in her video. Thus, I began to attempt to paint this snapshot on a canvas. I created a vibrant painting full of life yet utterly peaceful. That’s the moment I try to capture in all of my paintings. My paintings are intended to be compelling, provocative, original and beautiful.

I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I do painting them.