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Name: Christine
Russell
Bio: Christine Russell was born and educated in London, England and
having nurtured a passion for drawing and painting since childhood, embarked
upon a full time painting career in 1993. Christine worked for the Royal Opera
House for a number of years, both on and off stage, during which time she met
and was influenced by a theatre designer
who produced a collection of exquisite designs in pastel.
Over the years, Christine has taken on many
private commissions in the U.K. and the Middle East and has been exhibited at a
number of prestigious galleries. In 1996 she was invited to become a full
member of the Society of Women Artists, where she has served on the Council and
Exhibition Selection Panel.
For the past 11 years she has shared a
studio in Gloucestershire with her daughter, Claire, a picture framer and
gilder. Her time is divided into painting for exhibitions, running courses at
her studio, at Marlborough College Summer School and abroad. She has travelled widely and this love of
travel is combined with tutoring painting holidays in Spain, Italy, Morocco,
Cuba, India and Sri Lanka. This aspect of her work was featured in the June/July
issue of Leisure Painter. Demonstration pieces and articles have featured in a
number of other publications: Masterstrokes, Pastel and Painting Great Pictures
From Photographs (books published by Sterling Publishing inc), Who's Who in Art
and The Society
of Women Artists Exhibitors,
1855-1996. The Collins Artist's Sketchbook, and in The International Artist and
Pastel Artist International magazines.
Medium: Pastel; oil.
Subjects: Still Life. Inspiration is drawn
from a diverse range of subjects, from classical fruit, flowers and musical
instruments, to sassy high-heeled shoes and modern packaging. Her motivation is
always driven by the keen observation of the subtleties of light on surface
texture and it is for this reason that she works directly from lovingly
constructed still life sets, rather than from photographs.
Style: Highly detailed still life has become Christine’s speciality and forms
the major body of her work. As an antidote to fine-detailed work, she
occasionally likes to “crawl out from the end of the microscope” to paint
landscapes and other subjects, often inspired by the places she has visited on
her travels. These are more impressionistic and experimental. Occasionally she
works in oils, preferring to use almost neat paint, often applied with a knife.
Technique: Soft pastel is her primary
medium of choice, as she enjoys the immediacy and vibrancy of the sticks made
from almost pure pigment. She will often apply an under-painting in acrylic ink
or watercolour, which helps to establish the tonal qualities of the piece at
the initial stage. This is allowed to show through in places as the picture
progresses.
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Gallery: Fruit
paintings; Flower paintings; Shoe paintings; Still Life; Landscape.
Image View: Images
present on each gallery page as thumbnails and do not enlarge. No indication is given of dimension.
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