Christine Bass Art and Illustration: IVINGHOE BEACON & RIDGEWAY PAINTINGS: Paintings which reference Ivinghoe Beacon or The Ridgeway. This post is regularly updated.

On Ivinghoe Beacon

Looking back at the chalky tracks when you've walked about two thirds the way up Ivinghoe Beacon.
Original acrylic and mixed media painting

Framed size: 53cm high x 73cm wide

Original sold but available as signed, limited edition, giclee prints,

full size or reduced size
Mounted, reduced size print: 47cm high x 56.5cm wide

Giclee prints and cards are for sale

Email christinebass.art@gmail.com for more info

Near Pitstone Wharf

We love walking along the Grand Union Canal near Cheddington. This is the view towards Ivinghoe Beacon from the canal near Pitstone Wharf.
Original acrylic, ink and mixed media painting

Framed size: 25.5cm high x 52.5cm wide

Also available as signed, limited edition, giclee prints

Mounted, full size print: approx 33.5cm high x 57.5cm wide

Original painting and giclee prints are for sale

Email christinebass.art@gmail.com for more info

Track beneath Ivinghoe Beacon

A favourite circular walk takes us from the car park, up Ivinghoe Beacon and along the 'ridge', then dropping down to the right on to a track across fields which takes us back to the car park.

Original acrylic and mixed media painting on canvas

Canvas size: 45.5cm high x 61cm wide

Also available as signed, limited edition, giclee prints,

full size or reduced size
Mounted, reduced size print: 47.5cm high x 55cm wide

Original painting, giclee prints and cards are for sale

Email christinebass.art@gmail.com for more info

Trees beneath Ivinghoe Beacon

I've always loved the row of characterful Scots pines at the base of
Ivinghoe Beacon, along the B489.

Original acrylic and mixed media painting on canvas

Canvas size: 45.5cm high x 61cm wide

Also available as signed, limited edition, giclee prints,

full size or reduced size
Mounted, reduced size print: 47.5cm high x 55cm wide

Original painting, giclee prints and cards are for sale

Email christinebass.art@gmail.com for more info

Ivinghoe Beacon from Grove Farm

Original acrylic and mixed media painting

Framed size: 32.5cm high x 90.5cm wide

Original sold but available as signed, limited edition, giclee prints,
full size or reduced size
Mounted, reduced size print: 33.5cm high x 72cm wide

Giclee prints and cards are for sale

Email christinebass.art@gmail.com for more info

Near Ivinghoe Beacon
Original acrylic and mixed media painting
Framed size: 77cm high x 101.5cm wide
Original sold but available as signed, limited edition, giclee print,
full size or reduced size
Mounted, reduced size print: 46.5cm high x 57cm wide
Contact me at christinebass.art@gmail.com

Along the Ridgeway
Original acrylic and mixed media painting
Framed size: 35cm high x 95cm wide
Original sold but available as signed, limited edition, giclee print,
full size or reduced size
Mounted, reduced size print: 34cm high x 72cm wide
Giclee prints and cards are for sale
Contact me at christinebass.art@gmail.com

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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