Charisten Wallis was born and raised in Akron, OH. Her introduction to the arts started at a very young age. In elementary school, she became a member of the summit county choral society and she would stay a member for the next 8 years. This fueled a passion for the vocal arts. She went on to attend Miller South School for the visual and performing arts for singing. There she was introduced to visual arts and found she also had a passion for mixed media and abstract art.
After highschool, life very quickly took over and she found herself working full-time in the service industry and raising 4 amazing children. She never lost her passion for art and was intentional about installing a love for all the arts in them as well.  She would do commissions and Booths at art shows on the side throughout the early 2000s. In 2018, she would collaborate to provide artwork for a music video for Chris Butlers song bitch box (https://youtu.be/XMnNgDgFJSU?feature=shared). That same year she was introduced to pour painting and began heavily including that into her artwork.

In February of 2021, she got into a car accident that would put her life on hold for the next 2 years.  She would go through two different surgeries (a double-disc replacement in her neck and shoulder surgery) and over 14 months of physical therapy and recovery. She was physically unable to work or do much art during this time, making her question the life she was trying to build. Ultimately this would push her to decide that she would not be returning to the customer service industry and would like to put her efforts full-time into building her portfolio and a successful art career. She enjoys working in mixed-media, acrylic paint, pour painting, and any mixed-media crafting. She likes combining the ordinary with the abstract. She enjoys the depth that abstract illusions in the pour painting add when combined with other mediums. Her favorite part about mixed media is figuring out how things that seem unrelated fit together to make something beautiful. She believes art is about playing, making messes, mistakes and memories.