Exquisite craftsmanship, truly unique design and moving pointed messages have served to place pieces in museums and private collections internationally.  Chris currently resides in Loveland, Colorado with his wife Sharlane and their two children, Brent and Kirsten, ages 18 and 13 respectively. Although a Colorado resident he still travels to Texas several times a year to collect wood.

     If one word could be used to sum up the style of J. Christopher White's sculptures it would be movement. While wood sculpture has traditionally been cast as static, stiff or massive, White's use of S-curves, negative spaces, and fluid lines into shimmering ribbons of wood, has broken the mold stepping out of the cast and into the halls of fine art. Each piece requires the welcome challenge of obtaining the wood. Often weeks of hunting the canyon ledges for just the right shape is involved. Cutting and removing these aged relics usually requires rappelling or dangerous descents and ascents, and always a lot of hard work and prayer. The process, from fallen tree to finished sculpture, is chronicled on film to allow the viewer a greater appreciation of the overall piece. Even in selecting the wood, great attention is given to movement. Every line and plane has a function in the design and draws the eye around, through or ultimately to the focal point of the sculpture. Some forms and lines provide environment for the subject, others give illusions of speed, grace or movement. While easily recognized for his glass like finish and painstaking selection of only the most beautiful woods, it is White's masterful use of the grain patterns in the wood and the inherent shapes of the tree that sets his work apart and augments his memorable designs