Christine Masters
Graduating from Liverpool School of Art with a degree in Textile Art, Christine first worked in London studios creating artwork for fashion and furnishing prints. There followed another twenty years or so teaching in primary schools and a move to East Sussex. When Christine ceased teaching in 2019, her love and experience of pattern resurfaced.
Christine has created many black and white fine-line drawings in response to the Sussex landscape and well-known landmarks of the South Downs. Eric Ravilious and John Piper have particularly influenced her work. Christine captures the flow, contrast and pattern in nature with small monochromatic marks and motifs. She has even extended her fine-line drawings to botanical subjects, again taking inspiration from her local environment.
More recently, Christine has begun to abstract initial Sussex landscapes, making the destination less defined, though still familiar. She likes to allow the viewer to recognise or imagine a landscape they can relate to. We all need space in our life to just be, to look, listen, feel, and come to terms with changing situations. Christine works with inks and washes in a way that requires a calculated application, but also a total acceptance of unexpected and often sublime results. It has taught her to respond positively to unforeseen events and Christine hopes that in seeing possibilities within a landscape, whether on art paper in a frame, or outside in reality, viewers can also experience a sense of belonging and inner peace.
