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career as a watercolourist
recent painting series
Australian galleries that exhibit her work

image: Christine with the painting a bunch of stirrups from the shed near Morven series
photo: Natalie Barovski

Christine Porter: painter

• Christine's first exhibition was in 1983 with her sister. A year later she made her first shearing shed painting after she moved to north Queensland from coastal NSW. recent shearing shed paintings
• In 1990 she gave up her teaching career to become a full-time artist. Her 2001 retrospective exhibition entitled ten years: one thousand paintings was held in Goondiwindi and Lismore. buy exhibition catalogue from Full Moon Publications. 2011 sees her contemplating, with something akin to astonishment, twenty-one years as a full-time, self-supporting, professional artist. details
• She was influenced by the late Fred Bates who encouraged her to see herself within the context of an Australia-wide watercolour community. In 1996 she was elected into the Australian Watercolour Institute and in 2007 as an exhibiting member of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.
• Her 2006 Bachelor of Visual Arts degree from Southern Cross University has added a theoretical dimension to her artmaking reflected in new work evolving alongside her paintings of rural Australia. ideas-based artwork
• She has been awarded more than one hundred and twenty prizes in art shows around Australia including, in 1999, the Kenneth MacQueen Award for Watercolour. In 2006 she received the McGregor Fellowship for overseas travel from the University of Southern Queensland. more prizes and awards
• Christine has paintings in the collections of the International Watercolour Museum in Mexico City (representing Australia), Brisbane City Council, and in various public, corporate and private collections worldwide.   details 
• Christine exhibits regularly within Australia and internationally: solo exhibitions most years .She has twice represented Australia in overseas watercolour exhibitions. In 2010 she was part of the group exhibition  Wattle, Rose and Thistle: The Finest Watercolourists of Australia, England and Scotland held in Sydney and Wollongong. recent exhibitions

RURAL AUSTRALIAN PAINTINGS AUSTRALIAN SHEARING SHEDS paintings in watercolour on paper - as well as acrylic on board - of shearing sheds from western Queensland and New South Wales image: long shed in a landscape 2008 watercolour on paper(private collection)
CATTLE AND SHEEP paintings in watercolour that include the British sheep breeds (pictured) from her 2007-8 UK trips, as well as other ongoing  Australian sheep and cattle  image: Scottish Blackface 2008 watercolour on paper (private collection)
ARTWORK ABOUT IDEAS more personal work that includes the lost gloves (pictured right) - acrylic paintings and sculptures and the remembering how to fly series of miniature acrylic paintings and drawings (pictured far right) image right: Lumsden Aberdeenshire 4:35pm acrylic on board 15x 10cm (collection of the artist) image far right: remembering how to fly  #469 pencil and acrylic on board 2.9x2.9cm

buy, lease or commission an artwork

• Christine's paintings may be purchased from the galleries where they are exhibited (see galleries listed below) or from Christine directly. contact us for up-to-date information about location, price or availability of a particular painting.  Artwork is priced from $200 (AUD) to $4000 (AUD) depending on its size, age and framed state. how to buy paintings
  
• Paintings and etchings may also be leased for placement in commercial premises. how to lease paintings
• Christine is happy to consider creating artwork specifically for you, though she prefers to be involved as an "artist-in-residence" rather than just as a designer or illustrator . how to commission an artwork

copyright, reproductions, licensing

• The copyright of all content on this website - all pictures and words - is owned by the artist
• At the present time Christine is concentrating on selling only original paintings and etchings, however please contact us if there is an image you are particularly taken with as this situation may change.
• Christine and Full Moon Publications are happy to discuss appropriate licencing of Christine's images.
• Full Moon Publications have published a selection of Christine's rural Australian images in their greeting card range. buy greeting cards, postcards and gift tags