MORE PERSONAL WORK
Like all artists, Christine's artwork is created in response to the world around her. Her rural watercolours began when she moved from the gentle north coast of NSW to the more vibrant country around Charters Towers and Hughenden with her first etchings a continuation of those rural images. However, over the years, Christine has used the etching format to create artwork that invites the viewer to see her world from a more personal viewpoint. The intimate size of her work allows for close-up investigation and the multi-plate processes allow for layers of information to be included - fleshing out the narrative beyond the topographical, if the reader should so desire to read it that way.
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OTHER PEOPLE'S TREASURES |
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This series began in 1995 with the crescent moon image and continues to be a forum for Christine's almost autobiographical interpretations of her world view. To date there have been about twenty etchings in this series: half that number in edition at any given time. |
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HADRIAN'S WALL |
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Travelling to the UK in 2007, with the opportunity to walk the Hadrian's wall walk, the medium of printmaking was perfect for exploring the multiple steps, the repeated photographic image and the implied and experienced narrative/s of this journey. Three series of etchings results from this cross-country walk. |
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This 2010 series of the dragonfly diaries seemed at first to be part of the other people's treasures series, however the depth of the information and the completeness of the series begged its own story. |
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2010 was also the beginning of a series still in its infancy. Using a masked island print technique, Christine is exploring the way change and growth is articulated in the plants and animals in her suburban garden in northern NSW.
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