Christine Beard is a figurative contemporary artist.
A self taught, emerging artist, albeit a young at heart 60 something, Christine makes use of the watercolour medium. Rather than seeking out unique or original subject matters, Christine aims to avail the mundane and the usual in her pieces.
People are Christine's inspiration. She is drawn to sun soaked outdoor settings. Which is why it is lucky that she now longer lives in her native UK (Manchester to be precise). These days she has the streets, beaches and countryside of Sydney and its surrounds at her disposal. She sees vibrancy and colour in even the most pedestrian of everyday scenes. She finds people going about their everyday life the most fascinating. The different expressions, situations, body shapes, colours and shadows inspire her to paint them notwithstanding that the person may be walking down a street or be in a setting that she has painted many times before. To ring the changes, she may change the background since this is secondary to capturing the movement of the person in that moment in time that existed... albeit fleetingly.
She chases after all the magic, light and colour that watercolour paint is capable of providing. Her work offers vibrant colours and strong contrasting tones that will delight any interior designer, decorator or collector. Whether its an interior, or an urban setting or something featuring the sea and a beach, she tries to feature people basked in light and colour. Her pieces aim to be at least the perfect complement to decorate the home and at best a vehicle that evokes memories of way back when for those compiling their own private art collection.Painting people (men, women, children, families, groups of people) is her passion. Capturing them doing something/nothing/anything in that single moment in time is special, she thinks. It triggers the memory and when viewed later, we remember where we were and how we felt...
COMMISSIONS
To arrange a commission, you should contact Christine via her profile - https://bluethumb.com.au/christine-beard-christine-beard