Christine Bass Art and Illustration: EXHIBITIONS SUMMER 2012

BUCKS ART SOCIETY 'SPRING OPEN EXHIBITION'

I have recently been elected a member of the Bucks Art Society and hope to show a few paintings in this exhibition. Bucks Art Society seeks to encourage and promote the best of the visual arts in the county. Their exhibitions are really worth seeing, so do come along.

May Bank Holiday Weekend

Evening viewing: Friday 4 May, 6.30 - 9.00

Show continues: Saturday 5 - Monday 7 May, 10.00 - 5.00

Fitzwilliams Centre, Windsor End, Beaconsfield, HP9 2JW

The Fitzwilliams Centre is behind St Mary and All Saints Church in the picturesque Old Town of Beaconsfield. Parking is very easy, just off Windsor End.

Free entry.

For more info about Bucks Art Society, see: http://www.bucksart.co.uk/

BUCKS OPEN STUDIOS 'ART AT ST DUNSTAN'S'

Exciting 'Bucks Open Studios' group exhibition in atmospheric, medieval St Dunstan's Church.

Meet the nine artists who will be showing paintings, drawings, reliefs, mosaics, woodcraft, woodturning, ceramics and jewellery.

Refreshments will be on offer throughout the show. In addition, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, the church is offering delicious cream teas.

For more info and photos of our work, see http://www.artatstdunstans.blogspot.co.uk/

Launch evening: Friday 15 June, 7 - 9

Open Saturday 16 - Sunday 24 June 2012
Weekdays and Saturdays 10 - 5; Sundays 12 - 5

St Dunstan's Church, Burton Lane, Off Mill Lane, Monks Risborough, HP27 9JE

Easy parking on Mill Lane. Short walk along Burton Lane and then onto paved path to church OR use the footpath directly from Mill Lane which also takes you up to the church.

Free entry.

MORE ABOUT CHRISTINE AND HER WORK

Christine paints contemporary landscapes, characterised by strong lines and shapes, flattened planes and the use of vibrant colour. She grew up in Trinidad and the bright light and vivid colours of the tropics still exert an influence in her paintings.

She draws inspiration from the countryside where she lives, on the Buckinghamshire border with Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: the gentle beauty of the Chiltern Hills, views from the Ridgeway, the patterns of fields scored by furrows and bounded by hedgerows, the bare trees of winter, the colours of crops and of the seasons.

Other parts of England feature in her paintings too: the South Coast, Devon, Cornwall, Lincolnshire, Shropshire and the Lake District.

Another aspect of her work is her still life paintings which often include flowers for their exuberant colours and organic shapes.

In her mixed media work, Christine begins by drawing the composition onto board or canvas. Next, she uses tissue to loosely block in areas of colour, relishing the unexpected shapes which emerge from torn edges and overlapping layers. The tissue is glued to the board or canvas. The drawn composition is important to her; when it begins to disappear beneath the layers of tissue, she re-draws it. She then paints in acrylics onto the collage base, focusing on the original drawing but also incorporating many of the shapes which originate from the tissue layer. Her aim is a synthesis between the drawing and the more abstract collage, with the painted layer bringing the two together.

Her background is in illustration and design (First Class BA Honours Degree, Manchester, 1982). Most of her illustrations feature in publications for environment and development organisations (such as IUCN in Geneva and IIED in London).

In 1998, she won the Sunday Times/British Airways Competition to design a tailfin for BA as part of its ‘Global Images’ campaign. Her artwork, inspired by British canal art and titled ‘Grand Union’, decorated BA tailfins and buses for several years.

Christine is a member of the Bucks Art Society, the Visual Images Group and Artists Network Bedfordshire.

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EXHIBITIONS SUMMER 2012

About me

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EXHIBITIONS

MY ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO IN NOVEMBER

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