Christine Bass Art and Illustration: AUTUMN 2014

TOWN FARM ART SHOW 2014
This year, there will be twelve artists showing! That includes many old favourites with shiny new work, plus four first-time exhibitors in the garden.

OPEN ONE WEEKEND ONLY:

Friday 28 - Sunday 30 November 2014, 10am - 5pm.

6 Town Farm, Off High Street, Cheddington, Near Tring,

BEDS LU7 0TT

Free entry

Donations for our delicious refreshments in aid of

Rennie Grove Hospice Care.

New this year: Belgian waffles!

http://townfarmartshow.blogspot.co.uk/

ARTISTS NETWORK BEDS SEPTEMBER ART TRAIL

There'll be eight ANB artists at Ivinghoe Community Hub, as part of the September Art Trail. I'll have landscapes on show, plus a large selection of my prints and cards. The Community Hub is in the Old School beside Ivinghoe's pretty Green.

The cafe in the Old School, Curiositea Rooms, has just been awarded 'Best Loved Community Cafe' by the Chiltern Society. The cafe is open 10 - 3.

Ivinghoe Old School Community Hub

2 High Street, Ivinghoe, Near Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9EX

Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 September 2014, 10 - 4

Free entry

http://www.artsnetbeds.org.uk/index.php?pag=cms&id=129&p=open-studios.html

Along with other ANB artists, I also have a couple of paintings in the Tree Tops cafe at Rushmere Country Park. Rushmere is adjacent to Stockgrove Country Park and there are trails through the magnificent trees (a mix of ancient woodland and conifer plantations). The cafe is in the fairly new Visitor Centre which overlooks trees, heronry and lake. The chocolate brownies are chocolatey and very yummy!

Tree Tops Cafe

Rushmere Country Park, entrance off Old Linslade Road, LU7 0EB

Til Sunday 21 September 2014, 10 - 4

Entrance to the exhibition is free but parking in Rushmere Country Park is £2 per vehicle (payable on exit)

LANDMARKS
I have a couple of paintings in the Upstairs Gallery's 'Landmarks' exhibition.

The Upstairs Gallery, 268 High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 1AQ
Until Saturday 8 November 2014
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm
Free entry

http://www.upstairsgallery.co.uk/exhibitions-and-events.html

BUCKS ART SOCIETY AUTUMN EXHIBITION

Queens Park Arts Centre, Aylesbury, HP21 7RT

Wednesday 12 - Sunday 16 November 2014

Wed, Thurs 10 - 9.30; Fri, Sat 10 - 4; Sun 11 - 4

Free entry

http://bucksart.co.uk/exhibitions/

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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AUTUMN 2014

About me

GALLERY

EXHIBITIONS

MY ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO IN NOVEMBER

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GICLEE PRINTING

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MORE ABOUT CHRISTINE AND HER WORK