A bit about me, Christine Rugullies

Without the benefit of professional intervention, Christine Rugullies has on her own cobbled together a Recovery from her early experiences of cult life. Her direction self-corrects according to the needs of the moment, always involving her natural interest in a variety of art forms.  She continues to teach and to study classical piano repertoire and enjoys occasional opportunites to play snatches of Chopin or Schumann or Bach on the Steinway concert grands at Bates College. Her musical ventures have expanded into the study of classical singing and a preference for Lieder with well-crafted piano parts.

Christine has created dozens of porcelain dolls, including reproductions of antique French masterpieces by Jumeau and Bru. With sewing skills learned in childhood she dresses her porcelain creations in silks and old laces and furs. In 22 years she has created and sold over 5000 soft-sculpted fantasy dolls. Her doll making has expanded to embrace puppetry. Together with her children she has given puppet performances of folk tales including several tours of a folk opera based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale “The Wild Swans.”

For many years Christine was a passionate folk dancer in the New England contradance scene.

An avid reader and lover of books, Christine’s personal library of well-worn recovery books is filled with marginal notes. She continues to read and collect classics and modern writers, especially those from the Middle East, and is polishing a collection of her original poems titled “Masque.”

Christine has twelve grandchildren who are welcome to visit and play in the children’s gardens she creates in various corners of a two-and-a-quarter acre property in Maine, where she lives with her husband and three cats in a large pre-1900’s farmhouse filled with bargain antiques.

A spinning wheel turns bags of raw fleece into homespun yarns which she knits into cozy shawls.  Recently Christine has taken up oil painting. She paints her grandchildren and outdoor scenes of Maine.