Member since Friday 8th Jun, 2012
ABOUT CHRISTINE
Although originally from Essex, Christine developed her painting skills when she lived in Somerset. Painting a variety of subjects in oils, acrylics and watercolours, she exhibited widely at West Country locations, from The Bath Society and Clifton Arts to local galleries and pubs!
Christine is most attracted to humans and animals as subjects and having had several cats of her own led her to join the national Society of Feline Artists.
Back in East Anglia, she now teaches adults and her recent paintings take the region - its places and its people - for inspiration.
“Artist friends have described my work as PAINTING JOURNALISM because I seem to observe those little momentary scenes of everyday life and record them in a way which leads the viewer to try to interpret the story behind it.”
TESTIMONIALS
From clients J and C Jackson, for whom I provided a record book showing the progress of the painting they had commissioned from me:
“ Thank you so much for the fantastic book! It’s much more than we could have imagined…. We’ll bring it out when you’re famous and show it off!”
From Mrs Showering, Somerset who was a kind patron of my early work:
“……so as you can tell, your talent and lovely workmanship is being greatly enjoyed”
From a client in Islington, a Q.C., who commissioned a set of mural paintings for his London home;
“….whatever is happening in this tableau over all, I see ‘rus in urbe’: something of the town in the country….. I’m enormously impressed…..You have, of course, been a pleasure to work with and given so much pleasure in your work.”
Following Christine"s article on Line and Wash painting, in the May 2012 issue of SAA Paint magazine, one reader wrote to praise her method of scaling-up using a grid of diagonals: "For years at my local art school we had the laborious squaring-up work - and the endless minor maths problems associated with that process. In later years someone suggested putting the small pic or photo at the bottom left-hand corner and drawing out diagonals onto the larger paper. I never could get the hang of that process! Using your approach, I've just had some success enlarging a very complex side-on view of beach huts here in Scarborough. My earlier squaring-up method utterly failed....So thank you for your article....."
